how to check ink status for printers?

[namsilat]

I have a Xerox DocuPrint M750 printer. When I had Windows 98, I was
able to use Xerox's driver, and under Property, there is an option to
see current status of different ink cartridges, i.e. if they are empty
etc. When I moved to Windows XP, Xerox's drivers no longer support the
system, on their web site, it says XP comes with a driver for the
printer. Under Property now, the appearance look similar to when it
was under Windows 98, EXCEPT I can't find somewhere an option to
examine the status of the ink cartridges. Problem is one of the ink
appears to be out, but I can't quite tell which one from looking at
the cartridges.

 

[Robert Tuck]

Those types of indicators are usually only found in the driver from the
manufacturer. If Xerox is no longer providing a specific driver, I'm afraid
you won't have that functionality in XP.

 

[Joe727]

You might want to try the Windows 2000 drivers.

http://www.support.xerox.com/go/results.asp?Xlang=en_US&XCntry=USA&prodID=M750&ripId=

There's no guarantee they'll show the ink levels though. I use Windows 2000
drivers for my Epson printer. Like your printer, there are no XP drivers
except the minimal ones that come with the XP Operating System.

I have a dual boot PC (XP Pro & Windows 98). If I want to see the ink
levels, I have to boot to Windows 98SE and check them there.

Joe

 

[anonymous]

sent file to printer yesterday and the little printer
icon next to clock in taskbar popped up with message
that "ink level is low". watch for this in future.