Bug 134665

Summary: unable to change ink cartridges from Epson C42UX
Product: [Unmaintained] kdeprint Reporter: galicia360
Component: generalAssignee: KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status: CLOSED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: jlayt
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description galicia360 2006-09-26 05:23:26 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

Hello! I have an Epson Stylus Colour C42UX; and after the ink get finished and I want to change the ink cartridge; I cannot find any utility as the Epson Windows driver have.

I cannot change ink cartridge in Linux without rebooting my sistem and get into windows!!

Sorry my english I'm from Argentina!!

Thanks
Comment 1 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-11 23:34:36 UTC 
Sorry, I do not understand.

Are you talking about the ink cartridge that is mounted into the printer? Why is it necessary to reboot into Windows to change that cartrigde in the printer??

Or do you want have a utility to remotely control and check the level of ink left in the cartridge?

You need to have installed a binary named "escputil". AFAIR, SUSE ships this as part of the package "ghostscript-library". If you have it, you should be able to run it from the commandline to check for inks.

Also, if everything is correctly set up by SUSE's packages, KDEPrint should automatically pick up the existence of escputil, and offer it in its menu of the KDE Print Manager.

To start the KDE Print Manager:

 *  [alt]+[f2]
 *  Type "kcmshell printers"
 *  Click on the Epson printer (if you have more than one printer there)
 *  Locate the "Printer" menu in the menu bar, find its "Printer Tools" entry
 *  Start the "EPSON Inkjet" tool

Cheers,
Kurt

[Setting timeout for response by reporter to Feb 1, 2007]
Comment 2 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-03-29 00:15:01 UTC 
Closed due to timeout. No feedback from reporter. Also, not a KDEPrint bug.
Comment 3 John Layt 2008-12-31 20:22:05 UTC 
Closing old Resolved status bug.