Re: [opensuse] Displaying ink levels on a printer

BandiPat wrote:
On Monday 30 July 2007, Rajko M. wrote:

On Monday 30 July 2007 18:06, Adam Jimerson wrote:

On Monday 30 July 2007 06:51:04 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Adam Jimerson <vendion@xxxxxxxxxxx> [07-30-07 18:23]:

Is there a way to get ether cups or the YaST printer module to
display the ink levels on printers? I have a Lexmark x1240,
using the Lexmark z600 printer driver installed on my 10.2 box,
but it doesn't tell me about the ink levels and its pretty
annoying to have to wait until the print quality starts to suck
before I know that I need to go out and buy more ink.

kink is available from packman

gutenprint 5.0.1 has escputil
software.opensuse.org/download/Printing/<distro>

...


I tried ink, didn't see kink, but the ink program didn't work for
my printer I'm giving gutenprint a try.

Hi Adam,

The escputil is meant for Epson Stylus printers and it works fine
them.

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Regards,
Rajko.

***************

I've always had good luck with "ink", but you have to have libinklevel
installed as well. I've used it successfully with different brands of
printers with good results. kink may also use the same files, just
give you a gui to work with instead of the shell.

regards,
Lee

I have a parallel port HP 5550 printer (supported in libinklevel).

I installed ink, and all I got for my troubles was this:
------------------------------------------>>
daniel@danny:~> ink -p "parport"
ink v0.3.1 (c) 2006 Markus Heinz



Could not get device id.
Could not get ink level.
------------------------------------------>>
Any ideas?

P.S.:
1. To get that far, I had to symlink /dev/lp0 to /dev/parport0
2. /dev/lp0 must have write permission enabled for everyone
3. URL for ink, kink and related matters:
http://libinklevel.sourceforge.net/. The KDE kink program is available
as as a tar.bz2 source archive. Unfortunately, the make fails with
compilation errors.
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