regarding cups

[Premjo]

The comming version 1.4 will support this?

premjo

> Tim Waugh wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 17:05 -0500, Michael R Sweet wrote:
> >> Premjo wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>    Is it possible to send instant commands to the printer and receive the reply by using the cupsBackChannelRead() and the results can be shown on the web (http://localhost:631) or on the right click property of the printers ?, please help me on this.
> >> No, only drivers (which are run only when you send a print job) can
> >> communicate with devices.
> >
> > It's the kind of thing I'd like to be able to do as well, particularly
> > for checking ink levels.
> >
> > If the driver supports CUPS-COMMAND files, *and* STR #1307 were
> > addressed, this would in fact be possible from the web interface.  The
> > results could be found from the marker-state attributes.
>
> One of the things I mentioned at this year's printing summit is that
> we are planning on implementing so-called "persistent backends" which
> will allow for live monitoring.
>
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