Hi! HP printers work quite well with GNU/Linux. hplip is very good at reporting the levels on my printer.
I have never owned an Epson printer, so I have no idea if it works well or not. The printers are supported by the CUPS drivers. So as a general rule any printer that works on OSX will work with GNU/Linux. However, ink levels is another thing all together.... You might search ubuntuforums, or askubuntu as someone else may have had your same issue before. On 07/23/2014 11:35 AM, John Hupp wrote: > A while back (under 13.04) I was working with an Epson Stylus C120 and > got it installed for printing purposes after getting past > http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/1133794. > I used CUPS and a Gutenprint driver. > > But unlike most Windows inkjet printer installations, I found no > provision for reporting ink levels. I found Mtink, but it did not work. > > In the meantime I stumbled onto the http://libinklevel.sourceforge.net > project, which is a library for reporting ink levels. And at > http://libinklevel.sourceforge.net/#installation there is reference to > packages that use this library. > > But on the library's home page there is no news since 2009, and the > mailing list archives seem to no longer exist. > > Epson offers this link: > http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX. But I > don't find anything there for Debian or Ubuntu. > > Perhaps another manufacturer has their own package that includes > provision for this function. > > Is anyone successfully reporting ink levels (one way or another) for > any major brand of printer? > -- Regards -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
