"Printer disabled" - how to prevent it?

[Michael Sweet]

Anonymous wrote:
> ...
>>The error message that the printer was not responding, not connected,
>>or not turned on when you printed the job.  CUPS treats that as a
>>fatal error and stops the printer until you can correct the situation.
> 
> 
> But this "feature" is a commonly reported bug as I can see on this forum, and when looking on google.
> Funny enough, on some setups I'm unable to reproduce it, even when I disabled the printer, and started to print after that.

In this case we opted to default to a conservative behavior - the
OS tells us the device no longer exists, so we disable the queue.

Don't like it?  Fix the OS so it treats different USB errors
differently...

> ...
>>CUPS 1.2 will add notification support (it will tell you when a
>>printer goes down) and error policies so that you can tell CUPS to
>>retry errors like this...
> 
> 
> When will this happen?

Right now we'll looking at beta testing in September.  Next week's
snapshot will likely have all of the required bits, however.

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