[cups.general] Hold all Jobs coming to prnter

[Michael R Sweet]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> 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.

Or use:

    lpadmin -p printer -o job-hold-until-default=indefinite

on the server...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer