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madeye

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Registered: 2006-07-19

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How do I query ink level in Epson CX3650 with printer-gui

Hi,

When using the printer gui in KDE to query the ink level on my Epson Stylus CX3650 I get the following error message

Cannot open /Stylus CX3600 read/write: No such file or directory

But when I use the command line tool I get

[rene@archer mtink]$ escputil -i -r /dev/usb/lp0
Escputil version 5.0.1, Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Robert Krawitz
Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details.

         Ink color       Percent remaining
              Cyan                      22
           Magenta                      26
            Yellow                      27
       Photo Black                      55

Has anyone noticed the same problem, and perhaps know why the gui doesn't work?

My user is in the following groups

[rene@archer mtink]$ groups rene
lp wheel video audio optical floppy storage users

The commands "Clean print head" and "Print nozzle test pattern" work fine in the gui.
The commands "Align print head" and "Printer identification" gives the error

Error
Please specify a raw device

I have in other distros succesfuly used mtink to query the ink level, but when I tried building it from aur, I get a dependency problem with gimp-tool. I'll post a seperate post about that in the aur section later. (I'd rather get the kde printer gui to work first ).

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