Printers accept jobs while set to off-line.

[Ruben]

> Normally both of those backends will wait for the printer to report
> that it has completely printed the job before moving on to the next.
>
> However, if you turn a printer off in the middle of a job, it is
> possible to lose that one job if all of the print data has been sent
> and the backend is just waiting for the "all clear" from the printer.
>
> That said, an off-line printer should never cause this problem -
> instead, the backends should be waiting for the printer to come
> on-line before sending their jobs...
>
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> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com

Thanks for your response and I totally agree with you here.  But for some strange reason, the printer will accept between 4-8 jobs in it's memory before CUPS flags it with a problem.