"true-end-of-job"

[Peter Schmitz]

Helge Blischke wrote:

> > We are trying to replace our good old Solaris spoolers with CUPS systems running on RedHat Enterprise Linux. Everything is fine so far...except a feature / option that I could not find yet.
> >
> > HP called it "true-end-of-job". The filter script waits until the printer signals the job as "successfully printed" as opposed to "job was successfully send to printer". The job is not deleted from the spool until completely printed.
> >
> > Am I missing a configuration option here or is this just not possible to do with CUPS?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for any information.
> >
> > Peter
>
> Perhaps you could post the filter script. Maybe it can be modified to
> act as a filter for CUPS.
> Another possibility is to use the hpnpf backend (see the links on the CUPS web site)
> which waits until the printer signals the end of job.

Oops. Of course, it's not the filter script that's waiting but hpnpf. The filter script only passes on the "-w" option.

Compilation of your hpnpf went fine, except for hpnptyd.c, but I guess we won't need that. As far as I can tell the hpnpf-backend seems to work flawlessly, but we'll have to test it further.

Thanks a lot for your work.

Peter