[cups.general] Job is "Completed" in queue - did not print

[Michael Sweet]

Dustin,

How is the queue configured (device URI) on your CUPS system? Direct USB connections are normally pretty robust for this sort of thing, but you mention the printer is remote so I don't know how you are bridging the gap...


On Aug 21, 2012, at 5:44 PM, dustin <drange at touchpaydirect.com> wrote:

> Ok, my question is a bit of a work around for somthing I dont think will be easy to do.
> 
> If I could just have my jobs not automatically cleared from my queue, unless they are truely printed that would be great. I submit a job and a split second later it is set to completed, even thought it did not print.
> 
> The base of my problem is that I do not have much error reporting on this driver for my zebra swecoin ttp 2030 kiosk thermal USB printer. The only reporting I have is it being idle - ready to print, or paused - dissconnected / turned off.
> 
> I am using cups 1.4.4, ttp20x0.ppd, rastertozebrakiosk.c
> 
> My main goal here is to be able to detect if the printer has been printing properly. I was hoping I could look at the number of jobs in the queue and judging by that I could determine if it is printing. I will have the printer in a remote location so I cant physically notice it printing.
> 
> It would be even better if I could detect out-of-paper, paper-jam, and any other errors that someone might know about.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair