unique printer identifier

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Pankaj

Dear All,

I am trying to find out that do we have a unique id for a network
printer (connected through print server or directly to the network).
Something that can identiofy a printer uniquely. First I thought that
since evry device has a mac address, so that should be OK. But I have
not been able to retrive the mac address programmatically(i have to do
it on windows using VC++).

My basic aim is to retrieve a unique id(be it mac addrees or any thing
else) for a network printer programmatically. Can you please help me
this by giving some idea about unique id for printer, and how to
retrieve it.

Thanks & regards
Pankaj
 
You can retrieve the manufacturer, model and serial number via SNMP (Use the
Printer-MIB), if it is one of the more modern network enabled printers.
Else you need to use protocols like TIP/SI, PML, PJL depending on what the
printer supports.
 
Dear All,

I am trying to find out that do we have a unique id for a network
printer (connected through print server or directly to the network).
Something that can identiofy a printer uniquely. First I thought that
since evry device has a mac address, so that should be OK. But I have
not been able to retrive the mac address programmatically(i have to do
it on windows using VC++).

My basic aim is to retrieve a unique id(be it mac addrees or any thing
else) for a network printer programmatically. Can you please help me
this by giving some idea about unique id for printer, and how to
retrieve it.

Thanks & regards
Pankaj
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Is it set up with DHCP? Perhaps the DHCP manfiest has it listed.
 
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