How to avoid CUPS disabling USB printer

[Michael Sweet]

Marcelo wrote:
> In our system users often turn printer off to avoid non authorized 
> printing.
> When CUPS tries to print and finds the printer off, it disables the 
> printer.
> That happens with USB printers but not with parallel printers.
> lpstat tells me:
> 
>   # lpstat -t
>   scheduler is running
>   system default destination: Lexmark
>   device for Lexmark: USB:/dev/usb/lp0
>   Lexmark accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
>   printer Lexmark disabled since Jan 01 00:00 -
>           Unable to open USB device "usb:/dev/usb/lp0": No such device
>   Lexmark-2108            walter         9521152   Sat 24 Jul 2004 
> 15:06:06 BRT
> 
> To solve this problem I just enable the printer.
> 
>   # /usr/bin/enable Lexmark
> 
> Is there any way to configure CUPS *not to stop* the printer in case of 
> error ? so we don't have to keep enabling it every time users forget 
> printer off.

Sure, don't use the absolute filename, but instead use the
generic name (usb://Make/Model?serial=NNNN) reported by
"lpinfo -v".

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