Printer Ink levels and capabilities

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 25.08.06 07:46, Richard Hughes (hughsient at gmail.com) wrote:

> > 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?

There is this project:

http://libinklevel.sourceforge.net/

Looks well maintained and seems to support a wide range of
printers. Recent -rc versions apparently support HP, Epson and Canon.

Lennart

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