[cups.general] Question re which-jobs

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Fri Oct 1 05:43:43 PDT 2010


Hello,

On Oct 1 03:52 John Dunn wrote (shortened):
> What does the lpstat which-jobs status of completed actually mean?
> Does it mean the job has physically completed printing?
> Or does it mean something else?

As far as I know it is as follows, see
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
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The print system considers the print job as completed when
the backend is finished. The backend is finished when the
transmission to the recipient is completed. If the further
processing at the recipient fails (e.g., if the printer
is not able to print the printer-specific data), this
will go unnoticed by the print system. 
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Of course a special backend could query the actual printer
and wait until the actual printer actually finished printing
but this would delay printing of subsequent jobs until the
previous job had actually finished printing.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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