BandiPat wrote:
> On Monday 30 July 2007, Rajko M. wrote:
>   
>> On Monday 30 July 2007 18:06, Adam Jimerson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Monday 30 July 2007 06:51:04 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>>>       
>>>> * Adam Jimerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-30-07 18:23]:
>>>>         
>>>>> Is there a way to get ether cups or the YaST printer module to
>>>>> display the ink levels on printers?  I have a Lexmark x1240,
>>>>> using the Lexmark z600 printer driver installed on my 10.2 box,
>>>>> but it doesn't tell me about the ink levels and its pretty
>>>>> annoying to have to wait until the print quality starts to suck
>>>>> before I know that I need to go out and buy more ink.
>>>>>           
>>>> kink is available from packman
>>>>
>>>> gutenprint 5.0.1 has escputil
>>>>    software.opensuse.org/download/Printing/<distro>
>>>>         
>> ...
>>
>>     
>>> I tried ink, didn't see kink, but the ink program didn't work for
>>> my printer I'm giving gutenprint a try.
>>>       
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> The escputil is meant for Epson Stylus printers and it works fine
>> them.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Rajko.
>>     
> ***************
>
> I've always had good luck with "ink", but you have to have libinklevel 
> installed as well.  I've used it successfully with different brands of 
> printers with good results.  kink may also use the same files, just 
> give you a gui to work with instead of the shell.
>
> regards,
> Lee
>   
I have a parallel port HP 5550 printer (supported in libinklevel).

I installed ink, and all I got for my troubles was this:
------------------------------------------>>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ink -p "parport"
ink v0.3.1 (c) 2006 Markus Heinz



Could not get device id.
Could not get ink level.
------------------------------------------>>
Any ideas?

P.S.:
1. To get that far, I had to symlink /dev/lp0 to /dev/parport0
2. /dev/lp0 must have write permission enabled for everyone
3. URL for ink, kink and related matters:
http://libinklevel.sourceforge.net/. The KDE kink program is available
as as a tar.bz2 source archive. Unfortunately, the make fails with
compilation errors.
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