cups, filters and queue

[Helge Blischke]

tino wrote:
> 
> hi,
> i'm implementing a billing system to make a self-service printing system.
> i'm using a perl filter to get page size, printing quality and page number from .ps files. is it possible to filter jobs also with a paused class? i wanted to pause the printer, then filter all jobs sent by the client, so i can tell him the total cost to print all pages and then re-enable the printer to print all togheter.
> i see that a job is accepted but not processed if the printer is stopped, there is any way to do this?
> 
> thanks,
> tino

There is no job processing for a stopped queue by design.

Helge

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