Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Program for obtaining IEEE1284 DeviceID under linux

[Gernot H. <aik...@gm...>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:38 AM, Solomon Peachy <pi...@sh...> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 03:28:53AM +0900, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
>> Does getusbprinterid.pl work on the new libusb devices?
>
>> root@hase:/usr/share/system-config-printer# ./getusbprinterid.pl
>> /dev/bus/usb/010/003
>> Died at ./getusbprinterid.pl line 12.

Hello Solomon,

> Same things happens on my x86_64 system:
>
>  Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04f9:0039 Brother Industries, Ltd HL-5340 series
>
>  perl getusbprinterid.pl /dev/bus/usb/001/007
>  Died at /home/pizza/getusbprinterid.pl line 12.
>
> And the CUPS USB backend finds it just fine:
>
>   /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
>   direct usb://Brother/HL-5340D%20series?serial=M9J473381 "Brother HL-5340D series" "Brother HL-5340D series" "MFG:Brother;CMD:PJL,PCL,PCLXL;MDL:HL-5340D series;CLS:PRINTER;" ""
>
> Come to think of it, any reason you can't just invoke the CUPS USB backend to get the IEEE1284 ID?

Good point, I did not know I could do that!
However, only the iP4500 is found:

root@hase:/home/hase/src/gutenprint/print-compile/src/testpattern#
/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
DEBUG: Loading USB quirks from "/usr/share/cups/usb".
DEBUG: Loaded 127 quirks.
DEBUG: list_devices
DEBUG: libusb_get_device_list=20
DEBUG2: Printer found with device ID:
MFG:Canon;CMD:BJL,BJRaster3,BSCCe,PLI;SOJ:TXT01;MDL:iP4500
series;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon iP4500
series;VER:1.000;STA:10;FSI:03;HRI:JP;MSI:AOFF,BOFF,DAT,E3; Device
URI: usb://Canon/iP4500%20series?serial=200E70
direct usb://Canon/iP4500%20series?serial=200E70 "Canon iP4500 series"
"Canon iP4500 series"
"MFG:Canon;CMD:BJL,BJRaster3,BSCCe,PLI;SOJ:TXT01;MDL:iP4500
series;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon iP4500
series;VER:1.000;STA:10;FSI:03;HRI:JP;MSI:AOFF,BOFF,DAT,E3;" ""

No mention of the MP10/MPC200. Weird.
Regards,
Gernot Hassenpflug