How to pause new jobs

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue May 9 06:55:25 PDT 2006


Robert wrote:
> I'm looking to setup a "Hold Queue" that will pause any new incoming
> jobs.  The user that sent the job then needs to ask a lab assistant
> to release that job to the printer by telling the assistant the name
> of the file sent and the machine it was sent from.
> 
> Is it possible to set this up in CUPS?  I used to run an AppleShare
> IP server because it was the only Apple product that had this
> feature.
> 
> I know in OS X you can "Stop" the whole Printer, but there is no way
> to release individual jobs.  Anyone have a way to do this.  The other
> way is to setup a non-specific Queue that is Stopped, and then have
> the lab assistant manually move the Job from the Stopped Queue to the
> Active Queue.  But, in OS X, the Job does not show up with enough
> information in the Printer Setup Utility to do it this way.  Under
> the CUPS web interface, their doesn't appear to be a way to move a
> job from one Queue to another.

All of this is "fixed" in CUPS 1.2 - you can set the default hold
option ("lpadmin -p printername -o job-hold-until-default=indefinite")
on the queue and move jobs via the command-line or web interface as
needed.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com




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