[OT] Wireless camera/webcam

[Alma J Wetzker]

Vu Pham wrote:
> I have a customer which uses a lot of printers of different kinds for the
> warehouse. Sometimes they call and report "the printer xyz broke" and it is
> pretty different to get the real situation ( bad output = no paper = lack of
> ink = paper jam = ribbon need to be replaced = .... = all = broke ). "Broke"
> for everything.
> 
> So I am thinking about putting some wireless webcams to be able to see those
> printers.
> 
> Any recommendation is really appreciated.

It might be easier to use the parallel port/network interface to get the 
printer status.  That might tell you what is 'broke' better than the webcam.

It has been a while since I used a parallel port or serial port for 
printing, but even then, the printer could report some of what was 
wrong.  Network printers can generally say exactly what is wrong, often 
with a web interface.

     -- Alma