Re: [Gimp-print-devel] [CUPS][GUTENPRINT] issue with the INK level

[Robert K. <rl...@al...>]

On 6/3/20 1:01 AM, Frederic DESCHAMPS - ZenIT wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm sorry to bother you with this problem but I'm facing an simple issue with Gutenprint and one of the current printer driver I use. The printer is compatible as it appear in your supported printer list (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php) so I assume it should fully work but it is not my case:
> 
> The printer is: Epson ME Office 1100
> With the related driver escp2-meof1100
> 
> I'm using CUPS on a raspberry pi 3b+ and printer is connected over usb and raspberry share directly the printer.
> 
> As you can see in the attachment pictures I have trouble to display ink levels , but I don't know if it is because I misconfigured something, a bug from cups and/or Gutenprint, or this feature is not available. Could you help me to clarify where goes it wrong?

Unfortunately, this isn't (currently) available.  It's something that's on our list to do, but
unfortunately I don't know when we'll get to it.

> Also I succeed to get them from the command escputils, I installed on my raspberry pi 3b+ but are not using this command to retrieve the levels?
> 
> Finally, if this can't be fixed, do you know if we can manually add the link level through an external command to cups, or maybe there is a script to send an email when the command return a value lower than a threshold?

For now, at least, escputil is the way to go.