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?
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