Reading info from printer on USB port

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Published on 2010-06-01T11:10:26Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 11:13 UTC
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In the days of parallel printers one used to be able to send a command on LPT1 and receive back standard info such as life count etc.

Now, with USB devices, have we lost that capability? Or is there still a way to read the info?

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