On Tuesday 31 July 2007 12:24:56 am 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 ink, libinklevel and kink installed on my system, the error ink gives 
me is 
"No printer found.
Could not get ink level." 
My printer is on /dev/usb/lp0 and is fully configured.  When using Kink I get 
the Printer error page saying that it could not find the printer on my system 
and saying that I need to run chmod 666 /dev/usb/lp0 to fix any permissions 
problem, after running that I still get the same error.  

It would be nice if Lexmark had the same support that hp and epson pinters 
have, that would make things a lot easier.  gutenprint didn't seem to make 
any difference that I can tell.

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