Short bloging on Testing of Ink Level for HP-Printer in Ubuntu
magnet April 20th, 2009
Hi Dear,
This document will discribe the info regarding ink level for HP-Printer in Ubuntu.
Please follow the following steps :-
- Connect your HP printer to your computer using USB or Parallel cable.
- Make sure your printer is powered ON.
- Open the HP Device Manager by entering the following command in a console/terminal.
# hp-toolbox
4. Click your HP printer in the left panel and then click on the ”Supplies” tab.
5. Here it will show information about Ink Level of your HP-Printer cartridge.
Trouble shotting for above steps :-
While running the hp-toolbox command if you get the following error
error: PyQt not installed. GUI not available. Exiting
so just go to synaptic by running synaptic command on terminal & install the python-qt3 package.
Then run apt-get update command on terminal , then run again the hp-toolbox command. It will shurely work.
Thanking You
Systems Team
Magnet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
www.magnettechnologies.com