Howto avoid that CUPS disable LPD printer

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu May 26 03:22:41 PDT 2005


> ...
> The very same question appears almost every week here, maybe this could
> be fixed and/or made configurable : if CUPS would let an external
> command check if printer is ready, this would be really really great !
> ...

CUPS 1.2 adds error policies, such that you can tell CUPS to retry on error, or cancel the job, or stop the printer, etc.




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