| 摘要 |
Printers interfaced with a SOHO network, such as a peer-to-peer network, are monitored from a client of the SOHO network with a printer administration tool of the client. A polling engine of the printer administration tool periodically polls the network to find the printers and retrieve each printer's status. An error detection engine of the printer administration tool determines if a printer has an error status, such as a paper jam status or low consumable status, such as low ink, toner or paper. A printer administration graphical user interface generates a table to display the found printers and each found printer's status and also displays notice of found printers having an error status. For instance, the printer administration graphical user interface displays each found printer as an icon within the generated table to allow a user to selectively interact with the printers and indicates determined errors with a color code or a separate notice pop-up window.
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