Printer stopped:

[angelb at bugarin.us]

> > I am using Samba and Cups as printing Backend for windows. My problem is that when a printer goes out of paper cups stopps the printer, but it will not restart the printer if paper is refilled, is that normal? Can i configure cups in the way to retry printing in that case and restart the printer automatically?
> >
>
> This can be troublesome when you have lots of printers. What I do is
> setup a cron job in the servers to run every 5 minutes to check the
> printers status.
>
> When running the following command in the server, it will show a list
> if any "stopped or disabled" printer as seen from the web interface:
>
>   lpstat -v|grep -i disable
>
> Enable the printer queue using the lpadmin command. There's probably a
> better way but that works for me.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Angel
>
>

Correction: should be "lpstat -p|grep -i disable" not "lpstat -v". :)

Angel