double jobs not showing in cups log

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Aug 5 08:16:42 PDT 2004


pieterjandeboeck at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> hey,
> 
> I'm getting this strange thing.
> 
> I've been testing my program which holds print jobs, renames them and then releases them. Using OS X 10.3, the graphical interace for cups accessible through 127.0.0.1:631 shows the job being held, then renamed and then successfully released correctly (based on the same job id.)
> 
> However, my printer prints the document twice, under the same ID: once with the old, once with the new name.
> 
> 
> I'm using:           All returning IPP_OK messages
> - cupsGetJobs()      successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attributes
> then
> - cupsCancelJob()    successful-ok
> - cupsDoRequest()    successful-ok
> 
> 
> Other workflow programs such as TWIST also show both jobs going through the network to the printer. This discrepancy between what the cups log shows (job history) and the physical reality makes me at a loss. What could be the cause of this?

Are you printing locally or to a server? (i.e. are the print jobs
coming from the local machine or are your printing from another
Mac?)

Are the jobs held initially when submitted?

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