Marc Shapiro wrote:
OK. I checked linuxprinting.org and it said that hplip should work and reminded me that the printer DOES have a USB connection. So I disconnected the parallel port and connected by USB. The output of dmesg shows: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. AThanks.
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: wakeup usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 18drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 18 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x6004
usbcore: registered new driver usblp drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driverso it seems to be getting recognized, but nothing prints, now. I am guessing that I need to tell CUPS that the printer is now connected via USB, and not the parallel port. How do I do that? I have been looking through the CUPS documentation, and the output of lpinfo is:
:/usr/share/doc/cupsys/online-docs# lpinfo -v network socket direct hp:/usb/deskjet_5550?serial=MY27V1K2BY2L network http network ipp network lpd direct parallel:/dev/lp0 direct usb://hp/deskjet%205550?serial=MY27V1K2BY2L direct usb:/dev/usb/lp1 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp2 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp3 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp4 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp5 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp6 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp7 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp8 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp9 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp10 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp11 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp12 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp13 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp14 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp15This tells me where the printer is, but I still do not know how to tell CUPS where it is. Do I put the full URI: 'hp:/usb/deskjet_5550?serial=MY27V1K2BY2L' into the location under 'Modify Printer'?
Any help will be appreciated. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail