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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:59:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: USB versus SMP and Epson printers.
Message-ID:  <200308071959.h77JxEXd094197@realtime.exit.com>
In-Reply-To: <200308071954.h77JsiM7096099@gw.catspoiler.org>

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Don Lewis wrote:
> Unless someone snuck it in while I wasn't looking, our ulpt
> implementation doesn't support reading data from the printer, so it's
> not possible to check the ink levels.  I've had to boot Linux in order
> to do this.

Hmm.  Okay...  Unfortunately, the straight printing didn't work, either.  I
tried the "check the ink levels" trick only after my test page never printed.
I'm using CUPS, could this be a limitation of the ulpt driver?  Should I be
using another device?
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