I’m looking for a way to query the ink level for my Epson DX 4050 on Mac OS X. There is some UI called EPSON StatusMonitor to display cartridges levels graphically, but I’d like to get it from the command-line so it can feed a robot.
Any idea ?
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This is going to be an undertaking. Either reverse engineer the StatusMonitor application to find out how it queries the drivers to find the ink level or look for some documentation for it. It may be possible to poke into the StatusMonitor application to find out internal values for its widgets (such a thing is possible with Windows, though hacky), but the entire process is likely to be a sinkhole for time 🙁