[cups.bugs] only one job will queue up to a "printing is disabled" printer

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Jan 28 23:17:42 PST 2011


On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:59 AM, Richard Ledford wrote:
> We process jobs (tiffs) to send to a Cups server. When printer is disabled it will only queue up one job?

CUPS 1.1.x sent each file in a remote print job separately. CUPS 1.2 and later sends multi-file remote jobs in a single remote 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.
> 
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair





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