Printer problem

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 12:51:20 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 07:36 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> Since there is a tool, I wonder why can this
>> not be integrated with CUPS/HPLIP?
>
> The question should be posed the other way around: since CUPS supports a
> generic way for any driver or backend to report marker levels, why don't
> more drivers use it?
>
> In fact, HPLIP is one of the very few drivers that does report ink
> levels using the recommended method.  It requires you to have printed
> job to the queue, though, and I bet you didn't before checking the ink
> levels..?

Nope... I'll try that when I get home from work. But wouldn't still be
fairly easy to have a button in system-config-printer to "Check Ink
Levels" which would run hp-levels and report the results?

Thanks,
Richard


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