[cups.general] job-hold-until indefinite for an HP Color LJ 3600 on Mac OS X Server

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Aug 29 20:12:22 PDT 2008


Peter Zingg wrote:
> I'm trying to set up an HP Color LaserJet 3600 on a Mac OS X Server
> (10.5) print server.
> 
> First crazy thing for me (a CUPS newbie) is the URL for the printer in
> the OS X Server Print & Fax System Preference:
> 
> Queue Name: prk_library_color_3600
> URL:  gaboon://10.4.48.103:HP%20Color%20LaserJet%203600/1%3a0.1b.78.70.94.d9
> 
> I love this non-standard URI scheme, gaboon!  I guess it encapsulates
> the IP address, printer type, instance and MAC address, but who knows?

That's definitely not a standard Mac OS X device URI.

> ...
> submitted to it.  In order to try this, I entered (as root):
> 
> lpoptions -o job-hold-until=indefinite -o job-hold-until-default=indefinite

OK, use lpadmin for that:

     lpadmin -p prk_library_color_3600 -o job-hold-until-default=indefinite

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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