044e:2002 — MD-5500 Printer
Alps Electric Co., Ltd
- Vendor ID
- 044e
- Product ID
- 2002
- Combined
- 044e:2002
- Decimal
- 1102:8194
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a MD-5500 Printer manufactured by Alps Electric Co., Ltd. The vendor ID 044e is registered to Alps Electric Co., Ltd with the USB Implementers Forum, and 2002 is the product ID that Alps Electric Co., Ltd assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 044e:2002 Alps Electric Co., Ltd MD-5500 Printer.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 044e:2002 Alps Electric Co., Ltd MD-5500 Printer
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 044e:2002, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 044e:2002. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=044e, idProduct=2002.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_044E&PID_2002 USB\VID_044E&PID_2002&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_044E&PID_2002"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
MD-5500 Printer:
Product ID: 0x2002
Vendor ID: 0x044e (Alps Electric Co., Ltd)Driver help
Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
044e Alps Electric Co., Ltd 2002 MD-5500 Printer