On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Tim Waugh <twa...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 07:36 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Since there is a tool, I wonder why can this >> not be integrated with CUPS/HPLIP? > > The question should be posed the other way around: since CUPS supports a > generic way for any driver or backend to report marker levels, why don't > more drivers use it? > > In fact, HPLIP is one of the very few drivers that does report ink > levels using the recommended method. It requires you to have printed > job to the queue, though, and I bet you didn't before checking the ink > levels..?
Nope... I'll try that when I get home from work. But wouldn't still be fairly easy to have a button in system-config-printer to "Check Ink Levels" which would run hp-levels and report the results? Thanks, Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
