Printers accept jobs while set to off-line.

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri May 25 09:51:23 PDT 2007


Ruben wrote:
>> 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.

Do you have the hard disk option for these printers?  If so, that
might explain it (although I'd expect the printer to keep the pages
on the hard drive and print them when the printer does go on-line...)

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com




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