Thanks, Israel, for the good word about HP inkjets and hplip.
On 7/23/2014 6:32 PM, Israel wrote:
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?
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