[cups.general] Canceling a job

[Michael Sweet]

Johannes Meixner wrote:
> ...
> Case B) only leaves the printer in a clean state when it is
> possible to somehow "reset" the printer while it is printing
> for example in graphics mode and when the driver really does
> the right clean-up stuff.

Right, and ALL CUPS drivers are supposed to do this.  Ghostscript-
based drivers can't, which is why we do not recommend their use (or
Foomatic, for that matter).

> ...
> As it depends on the particular driver, it may even make sense
> to have a "*cupsCancelPolicy" in the PPD file which sets
> the default canceling behaviour for a queue when the queue
> is set up with this PPD file.

Making an option to change a defined interface to yield undefined
behavior does not make sense.

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