[cups.general] Monitor toner levels

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 01 March 2006 06:14, Anonymous wrote:
>Hi all
>is there a way to get toner and paper levels for a cups printer?
>I would like to create a script in order to check if any printer is
> low in these materials.
>Thanks a lot
>
>Valerio Daelli
>
Paper out is a binary suignal with most printers, so you don't get any 
prior indication, generally speaking.

Inks are another matter, and for some printers there are nice utils to 
extract that info.  I use 'mtink' to query my Epson C82.  I believe 
escp2util can too, but haven't tried it recently.

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