If you are using CUPS and have an Epson printer there is normally included escputil which can be used to do various maintenance tasks
I put together a simple GUI for it as anything on the net is rediculously complicated and seems to need python.
Simply drop into /usr/bin and run as convenient.
I've included a purge jobs button for those moments when you send 500 incorrect print jobs out and the cups interface refuses to let you cancel
This is hardcoded for usb (the majority now ) but alter the /dev/usb/lp0 line to suit...
mike
Epson printer utilities
Epson printer utilities
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escputil in Puppy 5.1.1
I've just set up escp_util in Puppy 5.1.1, I had to sort a couple of bugs, the most serious of which was that the installing my printer ( Epson Stylus Photo R265 ) using Cups 1.4.3 did not install escputil! Fortunately I'd re-mastered an earlier Puppy using this printer so I was able to lift the escputil from that. Secondly, when I couldn't get a response using mikeb's GUI I took a look and saw that the code for checking the ink level was < -iur /dev/usb/lp0 > when according to the man page it should be < -i -r /dev/usb/lp0 >. Changing that gave me the ink readout, so I made the same change for the other two options.
Since it has obviously worked for other users I'm rather at a loss to explain what happened, except to say that the escputil I lifted came from a 4.2.1 install. If Cups is no longer installing escputil with any Epson drivers mikeb might want to add a pet of it?
Since it has obviously worked for other users I'm rather at a loss to explain what happened, except to say that the escputil I lifted came from a 4.2.1 install. If Cups is no longer installing escputil with any Epson drivers mikeb might want to add a pet of it?