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My Canon MG5150 doesn't work neither with Inkblot nor with Mtink (Epson Use). I tried two distros: Linux Mint 13 Maya and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I found out that TurboPrint works, but it's no alternative for me because it is very expensive and not open source.

ink is a package that uses libinklevel5, it's available in the repositories but it has no graphical user interface.

Is there a Gnome application based on libinklevel5 that I could use?
Can you suggest other packages that might work, too?

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  • What are you trying to do? Achieve better printing results, be able to print at all, or check the inklevel of your printer (which libinlevel seems to be good for)? Please be more precice and make your question comprehensible! Thank you.
    – cauon
    Oct 10, 2012 at 11:39
  • I just want to see ink level. Printing works fine, even if I must use Canon's driver ("Linux IJ Printer Driver"). Thanks Cauon.
    – Steph
    Oct 10, 2012 at 13:19
  • So oyou tried ink and it did work for you? Am I guessing this right?
    – cauon
    Oct 10, 2012 at 13:39
  • Yes it is : ink works, but is command Line only
    – Steph
    Oct 10, 2012 at 15:58

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After doing some serious digging I have found the solution to this for Canon Printers. Mine is an MP495 but these two command are worth documenting.

  1. cngpig -P
  2. cngpigmonmp495 **This one gives me my ink levels*** It is installed in the /usr/bin directory.
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  • Hi ! i've not been noticed someone replied, sorry. Where can I get cngpig ? I can't find it on my filesystem ! Thanks :)
    – Steph
    Jun 26, 2013 at 6:47

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