[cups.general] Question re which-jobs

[Michael Sweet]

On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:52 AM, John Dunn wrote:
> 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?


In general, that is exactly what it means.  However, some printers and print protocols may not provide those semantics - for example, jobs printed to a PostScript printer via LPD often will show up completed before all of the pages have come out.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair