[Bug 243410] Re: Inkblot Doesn't work for Ubuntu 8.04

[Bruce R]

@ Dave C - Sorry not to respond sooner, but I have been ill, the MicroSoft WinXP Update process has been responsible for the trashing of my online computer and loss of all my earlier files, whilst my Epson Stylus PHOTO R220 has expired, so that I now have an Epson printer that uses the newer Claria, metallic inks, which isn't supported by MTINK, let alone INKBLOT, the critical element being the INKLEVEL dependency library.
At one stage, the sole inklevel French developer, whose English is better than my poor French, told me that he hadn't yet found out how to detect Claria ink levels for the library, reporting being rather different to earlier ink level reporting.
So, once again I am reduced to re-booting into WinXP to use Epson utilities to check the ink levels whenever printing stalls in what is now a 64-bit LinuxMint-8 (Helena) installation.
I haven't yet tried using WINE to see if that can expedite those WinXP utilities, but that's my next step.
Since I can no longer invoke Inkblot from Mint-8, I'm afraid that you are on your own with your Canon printer, although Synaptic reports Mtink as being able to cope with some Canon printers as well as Epson printers, I can now find no evidence of that, although I vaguely recall some being listed by Mtink's Printer Choice when running Mint-7 with my R220 printer.
As a mere User rather than a Linux guru or developer, I empathise with your comments, but apart from WINE, MTINK looks like the best bet for Linux, hopefully with INKLEVEL getting better.

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Inkblot Doesn't work for Ubuntu 8.04
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