On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 07:28 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 18:08 -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 22:55 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:09 +0000, Hughes R Mr (UG - Electronic Eng) > > > wrote: > > > > I currently have no way of checking my > > > > ink level (for a epson printer) in FC3 > > > > without compiling and installing other > > > > programs such as epsutil. > > > > > > I'd settle for my father's laptop even being able to view the print > > > queue on the remote CUPS server. > > > > An icon should appear in the notification area when you print and > > monitor the status of your print jobs. Does this not work for you? > > On _remote_ CUPS queues? Yes. > I haven't had that working. Even 'lpq' doesn't > show me the jobs once they've been sent to the server. Right; AFAIK it's never worked in CUPS for queuing from a local CUPS server to remote printers, because of the lack of monitoring in IPP. Here's a sort of explanation: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-June/msg00392.html eggcups should work though; it has a hack for it.
