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deepclutch 11-20-2022 01:55 PM
Does driverless printing supports ink level for most HP printers? For HP 2778 printer, Ubuntu shows ink level, Debian Testing does not
 
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I have a HP 2778 AIO printer which is working fine in both Ubuntu 22.10 & Debian Testing which I am dual booting. Both the OS uses driverless tech, though hplip also installed.



Ubuntu 22.10 shows the ink level using system-config-printer>properties:

While Debian Bookworm (testing) does not show in system-config-printer>properties.

How do I configure to get ink levels displayed in system-config-printer in Debian?

ferrari 11-23-2022 03:54 PM
Are both environments using the same driver?

Code:
lpstat -t
Code:
sudo egrep -i "name|model|filter" /etc/cups/ppd/*

deepclutch 11-24-2022 05:58 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ferrari (Post 6393981)
Are both environments using the same driver?

Code:
lpstat -t
Code:
sudo egrep -i "name|model|filter" /etc/cups/ppd/*
Yes. I ran the commands and diff output showed both are the same.



Quote:
$ diff hp-debian-lpstat.txt hp-ubuntu-lpstat.txt
5,6c5,6
< DeskJet-2700 accepting requests since Wednesday 16 November 2022 01:50:27 PM
< printer DeskJet-2700 is idle. enabled since Wednesday 16 November 2022 01:50:27 PM
---
> DeskJet-2700 accepting requests since Wednesday 23 November 2022 11:22:04 AM
> printer DeskJet-2700 is idle. enabled since Wednesday 23 November 2022 11:22:04 AM

This is the output of lpstat & grepping of /etc/cups/ppd/ in both distros:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/PHJ7W2wBSW/

Also, system-config-printer is of a recent version (1.5.18) in Ubuntu. While, Debian Testing has got only system-config-printer version: 1.5.16-1.

ferrari 11-25-2022 05:27 PM
I doubt that the configuration utility version makes any difference here.

I see you are getting help from
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1437...0-wirelessly-h
and
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=762882

As the discussions seem to have progressed further there I'll jump away from this. Good luck. :)

deepclutch 12-05-2022 11:17 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ferrari (Post 6394381)
I doubt that the configuration utility version makes any difference here.

I see you are getting help from
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1437...0-wirelessly-h
and
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=762882

As the discussions seem to have progressed further there I'll jump away from this. Good luck. :)
No progress in case of Debian. askubuntu post was for Ubuntu 22.10, which is working fine. Not so with Debian Testing, though. Ink levels are not showing.

computersavvy 12-06-2022 07:54 PM
If you want an accurate ink level on HP printers you might try the hplip tools since they are explicitly designed for management of HP printers.


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