[cups.bugs] Printer Disabled

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Jul 3 13:20:44 PDT 2008


Chris Giordano wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm currently running a printer over IP and sometimes, there might be an error on the printer (jam, out of toner, etc) and it'll disable the printer.  However other times the exact same errors will occur and nothing happens.
> 
> I'm running CUPS v1.2.4 on a CentOS 5.1.  I have the computer set up with a static IP as well as the printer.  If I unplug the ethernet cable it just says it can't communicate with the printer, when i plug it back in it's fine.
> 
> The only way for the printer to come back online is by using
> cupsenable report (report is the name of my printer)
> 
> This is happening more often than I'd like and is an inconvenience to myself and the other users.
> 
> The only resolution I've found online so far is to write a shell command to re-enable the printer and have it run in cron every 30sec or so.
> 
> In my opinion this is a workaround and not a fix.  If there is no fix then I'll have to use this, but if I could find a fix that would be great!

Run:

     lpadmin -p report -o printer-error-policy=retry-job

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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