José Alburquerque wrote:
I checked hplip (with apt-cache show) and it looks like it does the kind of things that I need, but it also says to use hpoj for parallel connected printers, which mine is. The docs on hpoj do not mention checking ink levels, but I installed it, anyway. I do not see any mention of it in the installed docs, either. I will take a look on linuxprinting.org and see if there is anything there.Andrew Sackville-West wrote:Also, I found a neat gui utility for ink and such things for epson printers called mtink by looking for my printer on linuxprinting.org. If something exists for your printer, you'll most probably find information for it there also.On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:Is there a utility to check ink levels on HP Deskjet series printers? I looked through the djtools manpage, and, while there is some interesting stuff there, I do not see this. It seems that djtools is good for setting parameters for the printer, but not for getting information back. Since it is best not to actually let an ink cartridge get completely empty before refilling it, being able to check the ink level would be a really handy thing.If the printer is supported by hplip, then the hplip toolbox would probably provide this. there is a gui frontend that works alright and there are probably command line options too. not at my desk to provide more relevant input. A
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