ink and toner level with cups

[Aesis informatica]

Thanks a lot Tim. I write this small application and i hope that work very well.
Best regards. Samuele Aesis.



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> On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 02:47 -0800, Aesis informatica wrote:
> > is there a way to see inside the cup of the printers toner level and
> > send an email when the toner is about to end?
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> Although CUPS has a method for sending emails about certain situations
> (e.g. job aborted), this isn't one of those situations.
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> However, you could write a small application to periodically check for
> the 'marker-supply' state reasons, marker-supply-low-warning and
> marker-supply-empty-error.
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> In Python it can be checked like:
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> import cups
> c=3Dcups.Connection ()
> for printer in c.getPrinters ():
>     for reason in printer.get ('printer-state-reasons', []):
>         if reason.startswith ('marker-supply'):
>             # This printer is low on ink/toner
>             break
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> Tim.
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