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sundialsvc4 Guru
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 436
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:16 pm Post subject: "Discovering" an (Epson) network-attached printer |
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My Macintosh, with its Epson-supplied driver-crap, can discover the presence of my Epson Color-880 network attached printer on the local internet. In other words, it detects that the printer is there and determines its location.
How does Epson do that? Is there a standardized way to do that?
FYI, this particular printer has a network-adapter built into it. If you know where it is, CUPS (e.g.) can talk to it. But how can you discover printers? Is Epson doing something "Epson," or are they following a standard protocol that I don't know about? |
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poly_poly-man Advocate
Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 2477 Location: RIT, NY, US
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:21 am Post subject: |
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Did it seem to appear as if by magic on your mac? as in, was there *any* setup?
If there was no setup, it's probably DNS-SD, part of Zeroconf (avahi, for linux-folk) _________________ iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAA
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