[cups.general] jobs passed to printer too quickly

[nancy lin]

Hmmm!  That brings up another question then.  When does cups consider a job 
to be completed.  When it has printed?   I'm trying to figure out what you 
mean by "status of job" for IPP.

I don't know much about printing.  But do printers have two different job 
statuses?  One for job transmission complete and one for actual printing 
complete?  If so, which one is cups waiting for before it considers a job done?

thanks
nancy

Michael Sweet wrote:
> nancy lin wrote:
>> ...
>  > Does cups consider the job to be done when it has finished
>> transmitting the job to my printer?  Or does it consider it to be done 
>> when it gets an end of job from the printer?
> 
> Depends on the type of connection.  For all of the network backends,
> we wait for the printer to tell us it has completed its work.  For
> IPP this means querying the status of the job we've submitted, for
> socket this means the printer closes the other end of the socket,
> and for LPD it means we get the final status byte back.
>