PMP> Requested change to HR MIB

PMP> Requested change to HR MIB

lpyoung at lexmark.com lpyoung at lexmark.com
Mon Aug 9 16:44:26 EDT 1999


Please change the description of hrPrinterDetectedErrorState:

Original Text
             Condition         Bit #    hrDeviceStatus

             lowPaper              0        warning(3)
             noPaper               1        down(5)
             lowToner              2        warning(3)
             noToner               3        down(5)
             doorOpen              4        down(5)
             jammed                5        down(5)
             offline               6        down(5)
             serviceRequested      7        warning(3)
             inputTrayMissing      8        warning(3)
             outputTrayMissing     9        warning(3)
             markerSupplyMissing  10        warning(3)
             outputNearFull       11        warning(3)
             outputFull           12        warning(3)
             inputTrayEmpty       13        warning(3)
             overduePreventMaint  14        warning(3)

Revised Text
             Condition           Bit #    hrDeviceStatus

             lowPaper            0        warning(3) or down(5)
             noPaper             1        warning(3) or down(5)
             lowToner            2        warning(3) or down(5)
             noToner             3        warning(3) or down(5)
             doorOpen            4        warning(3) or down(5)
             jammed              5        warning(3) or down(5)
             offline             6        warning(3) or down(5)
             serviceRequested    7        warning(3) or down(5)

             inputTrayMissing    8        warning(3) or down(5)
             outputTrayMissing   9        warning(3) or down(5)
             markerSupplyMissing 10       warning(3) or down(5)
             outputNearFull      11       warning(3) or down(5)
             outputFull          12       warning(3) or down(5)
             inputTrayEmpty      13       warning(3) or down(5)
             overduePreventMaint 14       warning(3) or down(5)

Reason for change:
The original text would seem to require all printers to respond
identically in hrDeviceStatus on the same error condition. Reality
is that different printers respond differently on the same error
condition. What might be a warning in one printer may be a down
condition in another printer. Even within a printer a single error
condition might be a warning one time and a down condition another
time. For example, several printers support the linking of multiple
paper trays together to form one logical paper tray, when one of the
linked trays runs out of paper the printer will start feeding paper
from one of the other linked trays, the printer may report noPaper
but it is a warning condition because paper is being fed from
another tray.

Lloyd
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Lloyd Young
Manager, Alliances and Complementary Project Development
Consumer Printer Division         Lexmark International, Inc.
Dept. C88M/Bldg. 005-1            740 New Circle Road NW
email: lpyoung at lexmark.com        Lexington, KY 40550-0001
Phone: (606) 232-5150             Fax: (630) 982-4032





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