Printer

• Introduction
• Reference
  • Methods
• Serialization

#Introduction

Each printer object returned from a Driver should be an implementation of Rawilk\Printing\Contracts\Printer. A printer represents a physical printer on your print server.

#Reference

Rawilk\Printing\Contracts\Printer

#Methods

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#id

string|int

A print server typically assigns some kind of id or uri for a printer. For example, CUPS will return the uri to the printer.

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#name

?string

If reported by the driver, the printer's name.

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#description

?string

If reported by the driver, a brief description of the printer.

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#capabilities

array

If reported by the driver, this should be an array of the printer's capabilities (e.g., trays, collation, etc.)

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#trays

array

If your printer and print driver support it, you can get a listing of your printer's available trays for use later.

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#status

string

The printer's current reported status.

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#isOnline

bool

Indicates if the printer has reported itself to be online.

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#Serialization

The printer object can also be cast to array or json, and it will return the following info:

• id
• name
• description
• online
• status
• trays (If supported by the driver)
• capabilities (If supported by the driver)

{note} Some drivers may serialize this slightly different.