Print Spooling with auto-hold

Stephen Samuel samnospam at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 17:45:29 PDT 2006


What I'm trying to do should be relatively simple.

I'd like to set up print queues for a print/copy shop where people print to "the printer", but the job is always held until somebody (usually the sales clerk) manually releases the job to the printer.

Question is: what's the best  way to do this?  I need something that's gonna be relatively clean for someone who may be a *complete* newbie (i.e. a drag&drop type GUI interface would be perfect.

The best that i can think of would be to have two queues -- one 'fake', and the other one actually attached to the printer, so you have to move (lpmove?)  from the 'held' queue to the 'printing' queue to actually print the job.

Anything better that people can think of?




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