Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro shared this with us all:
>--> Marc Shapiro wrote:
>-->
>--> > José Alburquerque wrote:
>--> >
>--> >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>--> >>
>--> >>> 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
>--> >>>
>--> >>>
>--> >> 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.
>--> >>
>--> >>
>--> > 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.
>--> >
>--> > Thanks.
>--> >
>--> 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:
>-->
>--> ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: wakeup
>--> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 18
>--> drivers/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 driver
>-->
>--> so 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/lp15
>-->
>--> This 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
On my other laptop for just a moment.
Apart from my previous message, if I select my printer through cups, I get
this error message when I attempt to print a test page:-
Unsupported format "application/postscript'!
I installed hplip and also hp-ppd and nothing changed so purged them both from
the system.
Still no use, and I have posted under Re: cups newbie, some other things I did
previously, which were also no use.
Charlie
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