INK(1)

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💖 INK(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're doing printer ink levels and we're doing them correctly. this is ink, a command line tool for checking the ink level of your printers. yes. THE ink levels. of YOUR printers. it's giving "I just want to know if I can print my essay" and honestly? iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

ink — a command line tool for checking the ink level of your printers.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ink -p usb [-n <portnumber>] [-t <threshold>]

ink -p bjnp [-t <threshold>]

ink -b bjnp://<hostname or ip address> [-t <threshold>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, ink is a command line tool for checking the ink level of your printers. that's the whole vibe. that's the whole job. 💅

printers connected via USB port are supported. Canon BJNP network printers are supported too, because we contain multitudes.

ink makes use of libinklevel. it's not out here doing it alone, it's got a whole library bestie holding its hand. 🫶

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -p usb — probe USB port. that's the move.
  • -n <portnumber> — number of the USB printer (starting from zero). so like, the first one is 0, not 1. zero-indexed, as the universe intended. 🧚
  • -t <threshold> — only display ink levels less than or equal to threshold. it's the "bestie, don't tell me about the full ones, I only care about what's about to betray me" flag. 💀
  • -p bjnp — probe the first Canon BJNP printer found. whoever shows up first, that's the one we're checking. no cap.
  • -b bjnp://<hostname or ip address> — probe the Canon BJNP printer at the specified location. you point, it probes. 🔥

💜 FILES 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was originally written by Adam Cecile <gandalf@le-vert.net> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). It has been updated by Markus Heinz <markus.heinz@uni-dortmund.de> to reflect new features of recent ink versions.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

that's the whole page bestie, you're officially educated on ink levels. go forth and print. 🖨️✨

this has been INK(1), version 0.5.3, from July 2018 — yeah she's a little vintage, but vintage is a choice, and she ate. mwah. 💋

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