Printer advise

[sam tygier]

On 25/06/11 14:18, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 13:47 +0100, sam tygier wrote:
>> On 25/06/11 12:35, Leo Noordhuizen wrote:
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
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>> there is a database of how well various printers work at
>> http://www.openprinting.org/printers
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>> in general HP printers have very good support
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> With Epson printers there is a utility called escputil that you can use
> for nozzle checks, head cleaning, reading ink levels etc.
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> Is there something similar for HP?
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there is hplip that has a toolbox
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

for my HP 6940 i can do
test page
align cartridges
clean cartridges
color calibration
see ink levels

its possible that some models dont allow all of this. site above has a big list of printers.

sam