On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > José Alburquerque wrote: > >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >>>> Is there a utility to check ink levels on HP Deskjet series > >>>> printers? I looked through the djtools manpage, and, while there > >>>> is some interesting stuff there, I do not see this. It seems that > >>>> djtools is good for setting parameters for the printer, but not for > >>>> getting information back. Since it is best not to actually let an > >>>> ink cartridge get completely empty before refilling it, being able > >>>> to check the ink level would be a really handy thing. > >>> > >>> If the printer is supported by hplip, then the hplip toolbox would > >>> probably provide this. there is a gui frontend that works alright and > >>> there are probably command line options too. not at my desk to provide > >>> more relevant input. > >>> > >>> A > >> > >> Also, I found a neat gui utility for ink and such things for epson > >> printers called mtink by looking for my printer on > >> linuxprinting.org. If something exists for your printer, you'll most > >> probably find information for it there also. > > > > I checked hplip (with apt-cache show) and it looks like it does the > > kind of things that I need, but it also says to use hpoj for parallel > > connected printers, which mine is. The docs on hpoj do not mention > > checking ink levels, but I installed it, anyway. I do not see any > > mention of it in the installed docs, either. I will take a look on > > linuxprinting.org and see if there is anything there. > > > > Thanks. > > OK. I checked linuxprinting.org and it said that hplip should work and > reminded me that the printer DOES have a USB connection. So I > disconnected the parallel port and connected by USB. The output of > dmesg shows: > > ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: wakeup > usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 18 > drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 18 if 0 > alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x6004 > usbcore: registered new driver usblp > drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver > > so it seems to be getting recognized, but nothing prints, now. I am > guessing that I need to tell CUPS that the printer is now connected via > USB, and not the parallel port. How do I do that? I have been looking > > through the CUPS documentation, and the output of lpinfo is: > :/usr/share/doc/cupsys/online-docs# lpinfo -v > > network socket > direct hp:/usb/deskjet_5550?serial=MY27V1K2BY2L > network http > network ipp > network lpd > direct parallel:/dev/lp0 > direct usb://hp/deskjet%205550?serial=MY27V1K2BY2L > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp1 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp2 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp3 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp4 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp5 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp6 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp7 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp8 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp9 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp10 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp11 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp12 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp13 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp14 > direct usb:/dev/usb/lp15 > > This tells me where the printer is, but I still do not know how to tell > CUPS where it is. Do I put the full URI: > 'hp:/usb/deskjet_5550?serial=MY27V1K2BY2L' into the location under > 'Modify Printer'? > > Any help will be appreciated. > > -- > Marc Shapiro
I have been trying to get my USB Epson C43UX printer to work on etch, and have not yet accomplished it. Worked a treat with Sarge. Seems to be found as your own. I was told that you add usb:/usb/lp0 I tried this without being able to print. By the examples given It should be usb://usb/lp0 But that didn't help either. Maybe it should be:- direct usb:/dev/usb/lp0 But in your text where it sees the printer it uses two // rather than one I have been working on it for a couple of weeks, but without being able to print, and no one appears to know enough to clear this up. I think I have posted what I did in a previous thread, though it's of little use, because it doesn't seem to work. With what I tried, I get an error message about postscript which i can't post here because I am on a different lappy and don't have the exact text. No help, but maybe it will work for you? Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. .......................................Henry David Thoreau >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Linux Debian Etch
