stop vs. cupsdisable

[Michael Sweet]

angelb wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I'm a bit confused about the use of reject and cupsdisable. These
> commands are almost identical in functionality except that one deals
> with print jobs and the other, the physical printer itself but both
> affects the print jobs.
> 
> Reject:
> When a printer queue is set to reject, my understanding is the printer
> will complete its current print job and subsequent jobs are simply
> discarded and never queued up. When I say complete, I mean if there's
> a 5Mb file being printed and the printer has not yet received all data and in the middle of printing and receiving data from the server, you
> set the printer queue to reject, the printer will continue to
> receive/print until it has completely received all data from the
> server and printed everything for that current job. True or False?

False.

Reject stops accepting new jobs, but any pending (already queued)
jobs are still printed (even jobs that haven't started yet).

So, if your printer has 10 jobs pending and you run "reject printer",
those 10 jobs will still get printed.

> Cupsdisable:
> When a printer queue is set to disable, the printer will halt its
> current print job, placed the job back in queue, and stop printing
> immediately. Subsequent printjobs will be kept in queue. Whe you start
> the printer again, the printer will start printing from the last job
> before it was stopped. True or False?

True.

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