Description: The IEEE 1284 device ID for this printer, a set of capabilities (keys and values) specified in the US-ASCII charset and the format 'key1: value {, value }; ... keyN: value {,value };', as follows:

(a) SPACE (0x20), TAB (0x09), VTAB (0x0B), CR (0x0D), NL (0x0A), and FF (0x0C) are allowed, but are ignored when parsing (b) other control characters (less than 0x20) MUST NOT be used (c) COLON (0x3A), COMMA (0x2C), and SEMICOLON (0x3B) are used as delimiters and MUST NOT be included in any key or value (d) each key MUST be separated from value(s) using COLON (0x3A) (e) multiple values MUST BE separated using COMMA (0x2C) (f) each capability MUST BE terminated using SEMICOLON (0x3B) (g) all printers MUST include the following capabilities - MANUFACTURER (or abbreviation MFG) - MODEL (or abbreviation MDL) (h) all printers MAY include the following capabilities - COMMAND SET (or abbreviation CMD) - COMMENT - ACTIVE COMMAND SET

For example (actually all on one line of text):

MANUFACTURER:ACME Manufacturing; COMMAND SET:PCL,PJL,PS,XHTML-Print+xml; MODEL:LaserBeam 9; COMMENT:Anything you like; ACTIVE COMMAND SET:PCL;

The value of this object MUST exactly match the IEEE 1284-2000 Device ID string, except that the length field MUST NOT be specified. The value MUST be assigned by the Printer vendor and MUST NOT be localized by the Print Service.

Compatibility Note: At the time of publication of this MIB, IEEE device IDs are restricted to US-ASCII. In order to support possible future evolution of IEEE device IDs (in a successor to IEEE 1284-2000) to allow non-ASCII characters, this object has been defined with a syntax of OCTET STRING to support the future use of UTF-8 (RFC 3629).

If this object is empty, then the value of 'ppmPortProtocolType' for the selected port SHOULD be used to load a generic driver.