摘要 |
A system and method include a printing device having an embedded server that generates an electronic document. The content of the electronic document may he data representative of operational elements of the device. An application server may contain program instructions that request the electronic document from the printing device. A firewall may separate the printing device and the application server from an external hosted server. The application server may include program instructions to periodically poll the hosted server to determine whether the hosted server has issued an electronic document request. If the hosted server has issued an electronic document request, the application server may return content of the electronic document from the printing device to the hosted server.
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