[cups.general] Holding jobs indefinitely.

[ronaress at esalq.usp.br]

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.

  Rogério