[riscos-printing] Re: Gutenprint 5.0.0

  • From: Andy Wingate <andy-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: riscos-printing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:51:50 +0100

In message <591bcf544e.Bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Bryan <bryanpage1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

> I remember asking of Gimp-Print about the fact that Epson software
> shows how much ink is left in the cartrdges, with facilities to clean
> the print heads etc.  I appreciate it's early in  the scheme of things
> but is it possible to include this in the Risc OS version of
> Gutenprint 5?

At the moment you can use PrtInfo from Thomas Milius to do the above
for some Epson and Canon printers.
<URL:http://www.thomas-milius.homepage.t-online.de/English/Computer/printer.htm#prtinfo>

You may need to alter the TypeAlias and PrtAlias files in
!PrtInfo.Resources as documented in the help file but it seems to work
OK for my Stylus Color 760.
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