Re: monitoring ink levels

["Gary L. Hunt" <glh@srv.net>]

At 06:32 AM 2/7/2000 -0800, ray byam wrote:
>i have an epson 850 that comes with Status Monitor 2 , a software device
>that gives information on current ink levels.  I contacted epson and they
>told me that the status monitor only works when the printer is hooked up
>directly to the computer.  My printer is hooked up thru my scanner, and i
>have no more space for additional paralel ports.  does anyone know of a
>workaround, or other way of determining ink levels on the 850?   thanks

Did they actually tell you SM2 wouldn't work through a pass-through
port?  I guess I would have assumed they were talking about
networking the printer, where there is definitely a problem in
this respect.  Have you tried it and confirmed that it doesn't work
with your hookup?  If you have USB ports, a possible alternative might 
be a USB-to-parallel converter (although if SM2 won't work through
a pass-through port, it probably wouldn't work with USB either.) 
Perhaps you could get your scanner to work through a USB-to-
parallel converter instead.

Gary Hunt <glh@srv.net>

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