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CUPS "stops" a printer if it is turned off when you print
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6334 Location: Auckland, New Zealand |
I know this is an ecomoney style "bug", but it is a real weakness for a lot of users: If you print something when your printer is turned off (or perhaps when it is out of paper if it is a printer without an OK/Resume button), the stupid CUPS scheduler "stops" the printer. A lot of people think it is too complicated to have to "start" the printer again, so CUPS should be able to automatically restart printers. Workaround: A script like this can check for any stopped printers and restart them.
You can make a cron job to run it automatically, using pschedule. I don't know if you can make a cron job run more often than once a minute though. I guess otherwise you'd need to write an nasty script with an infinite loop in it, to run at startup. Or perhaps it would be possible to automatically start a printer when it is turned on / plugged in... _________________ DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS - - - Classic Puppy quotes - - - Beware the demented serfers! |
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6334 Location: Auckland, New Zealand |
There is a more "proper" solution to this: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=75584 _________________ DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS - - - Classic Puppy quotes - - - Beware the demented serfers! |
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rcrsn51
 Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 8532 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
Are you confirming that this works in Puppy? If so, could you give more details? If not, the method here does work. |
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6334 Location: Auckland, New Zealand |
No, I haven't tested in Puppy, but I think in theory it should work - Puppy does use udev these days, after all. Your solution does not address the problem I described - you talked about starting the printer on boot (is that even a problem? I've never encountered it), but it is necessary to start it when the printer is turned on/plugged in, or comes back on line after running out of paper, or when you send it a print job. _________________ DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS - - - Classic Puppy quotes - - - Beware the demented serfers! |
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