On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:25:51PM +1000, David Zuccaro wrote:
Yes I must have got it from the Epson website; I have an Epson stylus tx110. The printer still prints;
openprinting.org has details on support for this printer in their printer database at: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-Stylus_TX110 it looks like there are two drivers that support this printer. the proprietary epson-stylus-nx110 driver, and the GPL gutenprint driver. both support all features of the printer. as you've discovered, there are problems with binary-only proprietary drivers - you can't rely on them in the long term, because the manufacturer can't be relied on to update or recompile for newer versions of linux. If you're not already using it, I'd suggest switching to the gutenprint driver. don't download the driver from the openprinting.org page, use the one packaged in debian instead: apt-get install printer-driver-gutenprint (debian has version 5.2.9 dated Jul 10 2012, the openprinting.org web site only has a link to a .deb for version 5.2.7) once you've installed it, you will probably need to re-configure CUPS to use gutenprint rather than the proprietary driver, and then purge the proprietary driver from your system.
I just wanted an app called ekpstm which shows hopw much ink I have left...
this package sounds like it might do the job. Package: mtink Version: 1.0.16-6 Installed-Size: 601 Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: lesstif2 (>= 1:0.94.4), libc6 (>= 2.7), libx11-6, libxext6, libxt6, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Suggests: gimp, mtink-doc Description-en: Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers This is a printer status monitor which enables to get the remaining ink quantity, to print test patterns, to reset printer and to clean nozzle. . Even if this monitor is targeted to Epson printer, some HP and Canon model are supported. Homepage: http://xwtools.automatix.de/ FYI, when you need to search for a package in debian in future, 'apt-cache search inkjet' will get you a list of all packages that mention epson in the description. e.g. $ apt-cache search epson epson-escpr - transitional dummy package for epson-escpr printer driver printer-driver-escpr - printer driver for Epson Inkjet that use ESC/P-R escputil - maintenance utility for Epson Stylus printers libimage-exiftool-perl - library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files libinklevel-dev - development files for libinklevel5 libinklevel5 - library for checking the ink level of your local printer mtink - Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers mtink-doc - Documentation for mtink photopc - Interface to digital still cameras craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>