Anyone knows application for printer monitoring

[homeap5]

I'm looking for some nice small tray or OSD (or even window sticked to the desktop) tool that can monitor printer. I don't care about specific printer function, just program that reads print queue and display information like "printing" and "4 documents left" - some small 3rd party tool. I can open printer queue window and keep it on desktop, but it's not the best way.

[Terabyte_272]

well what printer do you have (it should have its own driver / software that does that!) Just search for your printer and download its driver

[homeap5]

4 minutes ago, Terabyte_272 said:

well what printer do you have (it should have its own driver / software that does that!) Just search for your printer and download its driver

 

I'm not looking for driver or monitoring tools build in driver - they mostly ugly and need to be activating. I'm looking, as I said, for some 3rd party tool, independent.

[Terabyte_272]

Oh well I wouldn't know but yes try the 1st party tool that your printer comes with normally It specify's ink left in the printer and how many pages are being printed

[homeap5]

16 minutes ago, Terabyte_272 said:

Oh well I wouldn't know but yes try the 1st party tool that your printer comes with normally It specify's ink left in the printer and how many pages are being printed

I know that of course. It shows me even more, but it's not designed to be always on top, activating window need few clicks etc. and I want something that looks nice and gives me only info about printing queue and operational (like standard printing window but nicer and smaller).

[Acedia]

Check out a protocol called SNMP.

[homeap5]

21 minutes ago, Acedia said:

Check out a protocol called SNMP.

Even if I was very familiar with SNMP protocol, it's only protocol, not a solution I'm looking for.

TCP/IP is protocol too, but I don't need to know how exactly it works to use great web browsers.