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 -- Alex Lowe's 3 Rules for Climbing: 1 - Come Back Alive! 2 - Come Back Still Friends With Your Partners! 3 - Get To The Top!
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
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 -- Alex Lowe's 3 Rules for Climbing: 1 - Come Back Alive! 2 - Come Back Still Friends With Your Partners! 3 - Get To The Top!
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The Friday 2005-04-01 at 10:55 -0500, Andy Choens wrote:
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?
What error do you see? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Hello, On Apr 1 10:55 Andy Choens wrote (shortened):
... want to print something, only to realize that my printer isn't plugged into my laptop. ... I just use the USB connection.
The queue becomes disabled in this case. Read http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jsmeix_print-cups-in-a-nutshell.html "The Backends" Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
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