Looking for a program to read my printer memory.

Methal · Jun 23, 2010

I heard that someone created a program that will read what is in my printers memory. Anyone know anything about such a program?

I would like to find a way to see what is stored there, and if its retrievable, and removable for when I throw out old printers.

I.M.O.G. · Jun 23, 2010

What sort of printers? Brands/models?

Methal · Jun 25, 2010

Its an HP Officejet 6400.

psionic98 · Jun 25, 2010

i'd be more worried if its a printer/copier type as copiers do have internal memory for the copy image (theres been news stories done about them)

I.M.O.G. · Jun 25, 2010

I don't believe those have an internal hard drive, so you should be reasonably secure. The printers you hear about things being retrievable with are those who store images on an internal hard drive, to my understanding.

Adragontattoo · Jun 25, 2010

I.M.O.G. said:
I don't believe those have an internal hard drive, so you should be reasonably secure. The printers you hear about things being retrievable with are those who store images on an internal hard drive, to my understanding.

This.

The memory in NON HDD based models does not store jobs for very long.

If in extreme doubt, disassemble one to verify that there is no internal HDD.

Methal · Jun 29, 2010

I'm sure there is no hard drive in it. Its just a basic fax/print/scan set up. My wife prints coupons from manufacturers web sites. They have some web to printer type thing and remember ip addresses so she can't print more than one. I am trying to find out if I can access the stored print job on the printer to allow her to print more than just one.

I.M.O.G. · Jun 29, 2010

Its not stored on the printer. It would either be stored in files on the pc, entries in the registry, or server side by logging your ip/mac address/connection information.

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