Re: [opensuse] Displaying ink levels on a printer

On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
[...]

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

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



Could not get device id.
Could not get ink level.
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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.

============

Let me try my HP960C connected via the parallel port to check your
findings. I haven't used or tried anything other than a USB
connection, but the 960C has a parallel port adapter as well. Have you
tried the USB? Or did you try "ink -p parport"?? I don't think you
are suppose to use the quotes around the device port name. I always
use ink -p usb and get results.

Lee
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