only one job will queue up to a "printing is disabled" printer

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Fri Jan 28 07:23:41 PST 2011


Richard Ledford wrote:

> We process jobs (tiffs) to send to a Cups server. When printer is disabled
> it will only queue up one job?
> 
> 
> Here is the command line we use to send jobs over to Cups server from a
> Cups server using Cups 1.1.2 to a Cups server using Cups 1.4.5.
> 
> lpr -Plapr1 job1 job2 job3 job4 job5 job6 job7 job8
> 
> (in this case only job1 will queue up on Cups print queue?)
> 
> 
> lapr1:
>         printer is on device 'socket' speed -1
>         queuing is enabled
>         printing is disabled
>         1 entries
>         daemon present
> 
> When we enable printing, print queue lapr1 will queue up all the jobs and
> send them to printer.
> 
> How can we fix/work around this issue. We can only use the lpr print
> command because of how the hold process is of selecting a which printer to
> print to.

All the files specified are submitted to the cups server as one job. Thus, 
the "1 entries" is correct.

Helge





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