[cups.development] detect printer status

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Wed Mar 30 04:52:58 PDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 11:39 -0700, Michael Sweet wrote:
> You can't get the low-level USB status from CUPS, at least on Linux.

What you can do, and what we do in Fedora, is hook into udev and put
whatever actions you need there.

This is used for disabling/re-enabling queues when USB printers are
disconnected/reconnected.

Tim.
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