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["it clown" <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In what state is the spool when the printer is not
attached?

Could it be that cups rejects all jobs when the printers is
not attached?

lpstat -p

Regards

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:55:30 -0500
 Andy Choens <andy.choens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is something that has annoyed me for a long time, on
> Fedora and now SUSE.  
> This is definitely NOT a distro specific issue, and it's
> one that really 
> annoys people.
> 
> This is really a laptop related issue.  Sometimes I sit
> down and want to print 
> something, only to realize that my printer isn't plugged
> into my laptop.  At 
> work it's through the network, and I don't have to plug
> anything extra into 
> the computer.  At home, it's not on a network, I just use
> the USB connection.  
> But, I don't always plug it in immediately.  My fault
> completely, I'm lazy.  
> But, if I print, cups gets upset because there's not a
> printer there.  Can it 
> hold the printjob until there is a printere there,
> instead of just generating 
> errors?  This also happens if I'm at work and
> accidentally print to the wrong 
> printer or vice-versa.  
> 
> To print, I wind up deleting that printer, and then
> setting it up all over 
> again via YAST.  Resetting cups with the printer plugged
> in doesn't clear the 
> error.  This is frustrating.  Can I get CUPS to not have
> this behavior?  
> 
> --andy
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