ManualFeed printing queue

[Helge Blischke]

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> Good Morning,
> 
> I am using cups 1.1.17 on Scientific-Linux and have trouble with
> setting up a print queue configured with manual feed.
> I have 2 printers Xerox8400 and HPLasetJet5M for which the problem
> is the same : I am using the web interface to setup the printer specific
> options in which the Manual-Feed radio button seems not to be
> recorded nor displayed (the on / off buttons stay both empty )
> 
> Printing in the manual-feed queue prints immediately
> and doesn't wait for paper feeding.
> 
> The only possibility I found to make it work is to print using
> the -o ManualFeed option with lpr.
> 
> The >lpoption -p printer -l    command tells me :
> ==> ManualFeed/Manual Feed: True False
> (True is not selected)
> 
> Any idea ?
> 
> Thanks
> Christian

1.1.17 is fairly old. Best is to update. But as a workaround, you may
edit the printer's PPD
(/etec/cups/ppd/printername.ppd) using your favourite text editor while
CUPS is down.

Helge

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