Printer Ink levels and capabilities

[Martin Owens]

Ah this looks very very interesting.

So just a question about HALs Dynamics. when certain information is
requested can HAL aquire the information or does it need to have that
information stored already?

On 8/25/06, Lennart Poettering <mzuny at 0pointer.de> wrote:
>
> 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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