To tell that a remote printer is on?

[Phil Dobbin]

On 04/22/2013 03:47 PM, Don Parsons wrote:

> I have a lexmark c510 printer in my basement.
> I often forget to turn it off.
> Is there a way to to see on my ubuntu terminal whether it is powered on
> or off?

Or try its LAN address followed by ':631' i.e.
http://192.168.1.xxx:631/printers/?' ('localhost' would probably do the
trick).

This is, of course, presuming you're connecting via CUPS.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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