printing a job
Mohammad
momoir at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 15:02:35 PDT 2007
Knowing the number of pages after jobs are done is fine too. Is there any way to find it on command line?
> Mohammad wrote:
> > Awesome. Thank you very much.
> >
> > Do you know how I can figure out how many pages were printed?
>
> There is no easy, direct way to get the number of pages printed on
> the commandline.
>
> As for the web interface -- that will only tell the number of pages
> *after* the job is finished (i.e. not during the 'hold' state).
>
> If you need sophisticated print accounting for CUPS, then have a
> look at www.pykota.com
>
> > Even in cups
> > web interface it's written unknown in page number entry.
> >
> >
> >> Mohammad wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have set up cups on my computer and it's working fine. I have change
> >>> its setting so that it holds all print jobs coming to it.
> >>>
> >>> I can see all held jobs on CUPS web interface, but I would like to do
> >>> that using command line. I would be glad if you let me know how I can
> >>> print each job.
> >>>
> >>> I have tried lp -i job-id with no luck.
> >>
> >> # list all held jobs from all queues:
> >> lpstat -o
> >>
> >> # list jobs from a specific queue:
> >> lpstat -o queuename
> >>
> >> # release a held job:
> >> lp -i jobid -H resume
>
>
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