Printer Ink levels and capabilities

[Richard Hughes]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 09:16 +0100, Martin Owens wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Are printer ink levels and capabilities a useful source of information
> for HAL to have? thinking about it Linux has bad support for printer
> information outside of specialised applications. for some printers
> such as epson this information is available through special tools.
> other printers are not so lucky. 
> 
> If the information could somehow be provided, would it make sense for
> HAL to be the place to store it?

Yes I think so too. How can we get the ink information for locally
connected printers? Is this a cups thing? I admit I use epsutil which
doesn't exactly integrate well with GNOME :-)

What about HP, Lexmark and the others?

Richard.