epson ink level - SuSE-10 oss
Anyone managed to check epson ink level using the kde printing manager. Seems to require raw mode, but then you can't specify a printer driver! mtink compiles but doesn't run, kink won't compile. Geoff
Hello, On Jan 31 21:22 Mr Jiff wrote (shortened):
... check epson ink level using the kde printing manager
If you don't need a graphical frontend, try /usr/bin/escputil but read "man escputil" before (note the "CAUTION:" warning). Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
On Wed February 1 2006 4:15 am, Johannes Meixner wrote:
... check epson ink level using the kde printing manager
If you don't need a graphical frontend, try /usr/bin/escputil but read "man escputil" before (note the "CAUTION:" warning).
nice! you need to be root to do this ( read-write access to the printer), and my epson printer was /dev/usb/lp0: #> escputil --raw-device=/dev/usb/lp0 -i Escputil version 4.2.7, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l' This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details. Ink color Percent remaining Black 33 Cyan 54 Magenta 58 Yellow 72 -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:49, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Wed February 1 2006 4:15 am, Johannes Meixner wrote:
... check epson ink level using the kde printing manager
If you don't need a graphical frontend, try /usr/bin/escputil but read "man escputil" before (note the "CAUTION:" warning).
nice! you need to be root to do this ( read-write access to the printer), and my epson printer was /dev/usb/lp0:
#> escputil --raw-device=/dev/usb/lp0 -i Escputil version 4.2.7, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l' This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details.
Ink color Percent remaining Black 33 Cyan 54 Magenta 58 Yellow 72
-- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
Please don't hijack and mark this thread as SOLVED, you didn't start it! I aren't looking for a command line solution, I already had it! Geoff
On Wed February 1 2006 8:45 am, Mr Jiff wrote:
Please don't hijack and mark this thread as SOLVED, you didn't start it! I aren't looking for a command line solution, I already had it!
I humbly apologize, I forgot the original thread. all I did was to add a shell script with that line in it, and I run that shell script- checkepson, when I want the details. I was thrilled just to get that far! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
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