Hold all Jobs coming to prnter

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Mohammad wrote:

> I have been trying to configure cups on my Debian machine so that it 
> holds all print jobs coming to it. I have used job-hold-until=indefinite
> option to do that, but it just holds all jobs coming from the same
> machine.
> 
> I want to restrict all machine from printing. I tried different 
> combinations but still all machines can release their job immediately.

Put this line into your printers.conf definition of the printer (on the
CUPS server in /etc/cups/):

   Option job-hold-until indefinite

and see if it works for you.

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Kurt Pfeifle
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