[cups.general] Job hold and release using printer's own hardware

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 00:23 -0700, bse wrote:
> I myself am looking into this, and i think that the simplest, cheapest and most flexible solution is to use a small netbook (~150-200 USD) as a release station. Do not try to use the printers functions.
> This approach also makes it possible to have the copy function controlled by for example PyKota.
> 
> There was a message some time ago from someone working on this on a school. he was trying to implement 'show all MY jobs' in the CUPS webpage. Anyone heard anythin about that?

As far as the actual release station goes, just running
system-config-printer on the machine ought to suffice.  It can show all
jobs, but can sort by user, and of course can authenticate a job that is
held pending authentication.

Tim.
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