Re: printer timeout using cups

Mike,

* Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> [2004-Nov-30 08:24 AKST]:
> I am printing to a printer using CUPS, however, there are times when the printer
> gets disconnected for various reasons. Where would I set the timeout for CUPS
> so that it doesn't fail right away or that it times out much sooner. I have
> looked in the man pages for CUPS but don't find anything obvious.
>
> Anyone out there modify timeouts with CUPS?

I have no solution, but have the same problem. Just thought I'd add a
me to. . .

What I've been contemplating is a daemon that runs 'lpstat -t' every so
often and looks for jobs that have timed out the printer. If it found
that, it'd cancel the top job and then re-enable the queue. This is
what I wind up doing on a regular basis.

In my case, the jobs tend to be monstrously large, usually produced by
PowerPoint or Word, and submitted from non-Unix computers. Occasionally
they're PDF files with bad images that kill the
non-Adobe-licensed-PostScript interpreter on my HP LaserJets, always
submitted from Acrobat on OS X.

Chris

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