On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro shared this with us all: >--> 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
On my other laptop for just a moment. Apart from my previous message, if I select my printer through cups, I get this error message when I attempt to print a test page:- Unsupported format "application/postscript'! I installed hplip and also hp-ppd and nothing changed so purged them both from the system. Still no use, and I have posted under Re: cups newbie, some other things I did previously, which were also no use. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. .......................................Henry David Thoreau >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Linux Debian Etch
