Methods for providing periodic status updates from a printer...

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G06F 3/12 (2006.01) B41F 33/02 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2544527

The present invention relates to methods for providing periodic status updates from a printer to a host system, and a printer capable of providing such status updates. A printer in accordance with the present invention includes means for generating printer status information and means for automatically sending the printer status information to the host system at periodic time intervals, without the need for a status request from the host system or a status change at the printer. The time interval and/or the status information may be configured via the host system.

L'invention concerne des procédés permettant de fournir à un système hôte des mises à jour périodiques de l'état d'une imprimante, et une imprimante pouvant fournir de telles mises à jour. L'imprimante comprend de moyens de génération de données d'état d'imprimante et des moyens pour envoyer automatiquement ces données au système hôte, à intervalles périodiques, sans qu'il soit nécessaire de recevoir du système hôte une demande d'état ou qu'il y ait eu un changement d'état de l'imprimante. Les données d'intervalle temporel et/ou d'état peuvent être configurées par l'intermédiaire du système hôte.

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