Hi Eric!! I got a nice HP printer that is wifi capable, and has very good quality color for under $100. Setting it up for wifi printing was automatic. I just turned on the printer and set it to be wifi capable, and then when I went to set up printing it just showed up, and I can print and scan from wireless without any trouble at all. That and my ink is around $30 has made this a very cheap, but full featured printer. This is just something you might consider for the future.
On 07/23/2014 08:21 PM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: > John Hupp, > > I agree with Israel that the ink level reporting from HP is, in my > experience, consistently provided with their drivers. I also find HP > printers to be built better than Epson's; better quality hardware that > typically lasts longer. But, despite all that, I've only set up HP > printers for others. > > For printing in my own home, I, like you, choose Epson. The two > biggest drawbacks I've found are, as you said, the lack of ink level > reporting and the sometimes painful-to-configure scanning and faxing > (when I've actually had to fax). I've learned to live with all that > because the Epson all-in-one printers I buy are typically under $100, > the color is absolutely brilliant, networking (including wifi) is a > breeze and they work and work and work - right up I until they don't. > Typically about 2 years. > > Unfortunately I've never solved the ink level reporting issue. I've > just made sure I have ink in reserve for when my latest Epson > literally stops printing because a particular color is out. If you get > the ink level reporting issue solved, please share the steps. > Otherwise, I'm okay. It's a minor annoyance. I hope you'll be okay > with it too if you don't get the issue solved. > > The drivers for Epson for Linux are available for every one I've owned > so far. The following is a link to a page on our website that uses an > Epson WorkForce 645 in an example for downloading PPD files (that > reminds me, this page might need updating, but you'll get the idea); > http://computers4christians.org/FAQ/OS/HowTo/Print/Network.html > > Eric > -- > Thank You, > God Bless You, > Computers4Christians > http://Computers4Christians.org/ > > > 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
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