On Tuesday 31 July 2007 12:24:56 am 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
[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>
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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.
-- Regards, Rajko.
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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 ink, libinklevel and kink installed on my system, the error ink gives me is "No printer found. Could not get ink level." My printer is on /dev/usb/lp0 and is fully configured. When using Kink I get the Printer error page saying that it could not find the printer on my system and saying that I need to run chmod 666 /dev/usb/lp0 to fix any permissions problem, after running that I still get the same error. It would be nice if Lexmark had the same support that hp and epson pinters have, that would make things a lot easier. gutenprint didn't seem to make any difference that I can tell.