getting escputil to work

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

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I have a debian sarge system with an epson stylus c80 printer connected to the 
lp port.

The printer has stopped working and I suspect one of the print cartridges is 
out of ink.  In order to find out which one, I installed and ran escputil.

I think the command I should use is

escputil -i -r /dev/lp0

(although /dev/lp0 is a symlink to /dev/printers/0 because devfs is installed 
- - I did try using /dev/printers/0 too).

However it just hangs doing nothing.

fuser /dev/lp0 shows the pid for escputil as the only process using the 
device.

What an I doing wrong?
- -- 
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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