[cups.general] Holding jobs indefinitely.

[Helge Blischke]

ronaress at esalq.usp.br wrote:
> 
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> 
> > CUPS supports all basic and many extended IPP job attributes
> > (see RFCs for a list of the whole lot, or Mike Sweet's book on
> > CUPS). "job-hold-until=indefinite" is such an IPP job attribute.
> >
> > Use it like this:
> >
> >   lp -d printername -o job-hold-until=indefinite /path/to/printfile
> >
> > on the command line.
> >
> > I am not sure if you want to force this behaviour on your users, or
> > if a strongly defined default would help you, or if you want to rely
> > on the users to do it.
> >
> > In kprinter (KDE's GUI print command), click on "Expand" button (lower
> > left), select "Advanced Options" tab, choose "Schedule printing: 'never
> > (hold indefinitely)'" to make KDE send the "job-hold-until=indefinite"
> > parameter.
> >
> > To get the options as default, make sure they are in the
> > "$HOME/.lpoptions" and "/etc/cups/lpoptions" files. (These files may
> > not exist, but are created if the user, resp. root runs the "lpoptions"
> > command....
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kurt
> >
> >
> 
>   Dear, printing with CUPS + Samba, where I place the option (-o job-hold-until=indefinite), since the line "print command" in the samba is ignored when we use CUPS.
> 
>   Some idea? Please, help-me.
> 

I recently read that Samba 3.0.x with  some x > 2 permits specifying
options like this.

Helge


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