TTINK(1)

💖 TTINK(1) — the tea on ttink 💖

okay so bestie, sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, because we're talking about ttink, the manual page, and honestly? it's giving "tiny program, big printer energy." ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ttink — the program that lets you control your EPSON printer 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, here's the vibe of how you actually call it:

ttink [[-d | --device] device_file] [[-m | --model] model_number] [-r |
      --reset] [-c | --clean] [-n | --nozzle-check] [-s | --status] [-a |
      --align-head] [-e | --exchange-ink] [-i | --identity] [-v |
      --version] [-l | --list-printer]

mtink [-noAutoDetect]

no cap, that's the whole shape of it 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

this manual page documents, like, briefly, the ttink and mtink commands. short and sweet, we love that for us 💅

ttink is the command line version of mtink. periodt.

okay so real talk: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page 😭 iconic behavior honestly.

mtink</purl> is a status monitor for EPSON ink jet printer.

with mtink you will be able to display the remaining ink quantity and the state of your printer. and bestie, that's not all — operation as check nozzle, clean nozzle and align head are also implemented. she does it all 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-`). a summary of options is included below. slay.

🎀 Options for ttink

• -d, --device — specify the device file associated with the printer. depending on what kind of printer you have, it could be /dev/parport, /dev/usb/lp0... iykyk 🔌
• -m, --model — specify the printer or the entry number corresponding to your printer. if not supplied, the program try to guess what kind of printer you have. she's psychic like that 🔮
• -r, --reset — to command the reset of the printer. hard reset energy 💀
• -n, --nozzle-check — print a pattern. you can then check if nozzle are well aligned. aesthetic inspection moment ✨
• -s, --status — this is the default option. it prints the remaining quantities of ink in each cartridge. the main character of options fr fr 👑
• -v, --version — show version of program.
• -l, --list-printer — show all the printer handled by the program.
• -a, --align-head — begin an head alignement.
• -e, --exchange-ink — exchange the cartridge (not all printer). just the cartridge bestie, don't panic 🫶
• -i, --identity — show the identity of the printer. who is she? 🦋
• -c, --clean — clean nozzle.

🌈 Options for mtink

• -noAutodetect — disable autodetection of the printer. when you wanna be in control and not let the program do its little guessing game 🙈

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📜 LICENSE 📜

this manual page was written by Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; considering as source code all the file that enable the production of this manpage. legal queen 💜

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• /usr/share/doc/mtink/html/index.html

go read it, bestie, it's right there 📚

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org>

• Author.

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©️ COPYRIGHT ©️

Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Sylvain Le Gall

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okay that's the whole page!! 💖 this came from [FIXME: source] and it's dated Nov 17, 2006 — so like, she's vintage, she's a classic, she's literally an icon of the mid-2000s and we respect her for it 🌸 printer girlies rise 🎀💅