Xfce and my printer

[Neil Winchurst]

On 16/11/12 12:59, Maximilien Noal wrote:
> On 16/11/2012 13:36, Neil Winchurst wrote:
>> I have now installed and set up Maya Xfce on my computer. So far mostly
>> so good. But there are some questions about the printer.
>>
>> In my last distro (Mint KDE) there was a choice for 'Printer' in the
>> system settings page. I could choose that and there were various options
>> such as clean print heads, print a test page etc.
>>
> You can install system-config-printer-gnome, which is a GTK interface to
> CUPS. Despite it's name, it's dependencies are very lightweight.
>
Thanks, when I checked I found it was already installed. With it I can 
clean the print heads and print a test page.

>>
>> To check the ink levels I have been using mtink. I have installed it but
>> I am having some problems at the moment, but that program is just to
>> check levels.
>>
>
I have double checked mtink and I see that it was pointing at the wrong 
printer. I have sorted that and it now works. I can also use it to clean 
print heads.

Thanks

Neil