Vista - Printer page counter needed

Vista Home premium with 1 Gbyte RAM and everything is working just fine
except the Vista drivers for my HP Deskjet 3940 printer no longer
include any sort of ink level meter. The XP drivers won't install, and
the HP website addresses this issue with the suggestion to go buy a new
printer. Well, they are cheap enough, but the present one is only a
couple of years old, and works fine. As I refill the cartridges I really
do need to have some sort of rough indication as they tend to burn out
printheads of run completely dry. I am wondering if there is anything
like a simple counter of the pages that go to the printer. Just the
overall running total would be enough. I have searched and Googled, and
found the occasional freeware offering, but they are either very flaky
or so complicated that I can't figure them out. Can anyone offer a
suggestion - freeware please.

My grateful thanks.
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Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
compulsive computer fiddler.

Well it really is HP's responsibility for drivers. MS tends to create
some very generic drivers, but don't expect them to have all the features.


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Joseph Meehan

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Joseph Meehan wrote:Exactly - I was just hoping for perhaps a little utility that might do
what I wanted independant of the make and model of printer.


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Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
compulsive computer fiddler.

Peter in New Zealand wrote:Ummm, answering my own question, just in case it helps anyone else here.
I finally came across a little utility called InkMonitor. You can find
it at www.pokluda.cz. (Yes, I have spelled that right). It can be set to
start at boot, and has a number of printer and cartridge models already
built in. Mine isn't, but you can add cartridge details. It needs to
know what you want to call the cartridge and, more importantly, the ink
capacity. It sits in the taskbar tray and has a tool tip that tells you
what % of your ink it thinks you have used. When you start a print job
it pops up a little window that shows its best guess on a little scale.
No idea how close it really is, but it will serve for me to remind me
when I really ought to seriously think about refilling. I guess it's the
sort of thing not many folk need, but if you do, then they are hard to
find. This little one's definitely a keeper. Hope this might be helpful
for someone out there anyway. Cheers.

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Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
compulsive computer fiddler.

Glad to hear you found a solution.

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Joseph Meehan

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