Is there any way to find a printer status using java socket program?

Question

Is there are any way to find a printer status using java socket program? This program need to identified printer status. such as

1. Printer ON/OFF/IDEAL.
2. Current Job.
3. Paper level in try.
4. toner leave.

I used javax.print API, this help me to print a documents in the printer and it list down 4 attributes

• printer-is-accepting-jobs: accepting-jobs

• printer-name: myPrinter

• queued-job-count: 0

• color-supported: not-supported

some guys ask me to use snmp4j or LPR to know the status.

i wrote an application using snmp. i couldn't success on it. You can find the code form following link snmp application. In this code(Line no 38 SNMPManager client = new SNMPManager("udp:127.0.0.1/161"); we need to give the ip address of the printer. so i gave tcp/ip:127.0.0.1/161) i got an exception Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Address type tcp/ip unknown, i expecting a help to solve this.

Answer 1

PrintService printer = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();
AttributeSet att = printer.getAttributes();

for (Attribute a : att.toArray()) {
    String attributeName;
    String attributeValue;

    attributeName = a.getName();
    attributeValue = att.get(a.getClass()).toString();

    String gh = (attributeName + " : " + attributeValue);

    if (gh.equals("printer-is-accepting-jobs : not-accepting-jobs")) {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(rootPane, "Printer Not Available");
    }

    if (gh.equals("queued-job-count : 0")) {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(rootPane, gh);
    }

    System.out.println(gh);
}