Question re which-jobs

[John Dunn]

OK, thanks, so its not the same as the IPP which-jobs




>
> 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.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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