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Because CUPS finally 'just works'

Because CUPS finally 'just works'

Posted May 22, 2012 17:38 UTC (Tue) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106)
In reply to: Because CUPS finally 'just works' by jreiser
Parent article: Announcing printerd

> Then I try CUPS via http://localhost:631. On the page displayed by CUPS 1.4.8 (or following any of the links) I can find nothing about re-starting a stopped printer, print queue, etc.

It's in the "maintenance" drop-down list after you select "Printers" and then the name of your printer. Besides "cupsenable", this is also equivalent to:

> lpadmin -p $printername -E

The error behavior is also configurable with:

> lpadmin -p $printername -o printer-error-policy=retry-current-job

or by changing the ErrorPolicy line in /etc/cups/printers.conf.

This is for a more recent version of CUPS (1.5.2), and I'm not sure how well it translates to version 1.4.8. The maintenance drop-down, at least, has been around for quite some time.


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