[cups.development] [RFE] STR #3207: page.log lists pages that are not printed (socket, PostScript)
Michael Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Thu May 28 15:02:44 PDT 2009
On May 27, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> On 26 May 2009 at 8:58, Michael Sweet wrote:
>
>>
>> [STR Closed w/o Resolution]
>>
>> Nothing we can do about it - the printer driver would need to
>> monitor the
>> printer and only output PAGE: messages for confirmed pages. The
>> generic
>> PostScript path is not able to do this...
>
> Mike,
>
> It's some time ago since I worked interactively with PostSCript, but
> wasn't it ^T
> (Control+T) to let the printer report it's status?
That doesn't work on all interfaces, unfortunately.
> ALso one could redefine the
> showpage or copypage operators to "print back" information to the
> driver to sync
> page numbers.
> ...
While we can (and often do) override showpage, getting the information
back from the printer is often not possible.
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Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
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