On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:46:26PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > Hello, > > How can I make the CUPS lpq command give more details than simply > this? -- > > gir...@marvin:~$ lpq -P duplex2 > duplex2 is ready > no entries
see man lpq > I work on my laptop (running Lenny) plugged into my organization's > network and have set up CUPS to print on a HP Laser Jet 4250dtn > printer called duplex2 on this network. lpq always gives this same > printer queue status even when the printer is actually not ready. Afair that can have to do with how cups is set up. Early versions had the problem that cups would halt a printer when it detected that the printer wasn't ready --- pretty retarded because the admin (who found out the hard way that using cups had been a mistake) had to restart the printing after users called him because they couldn't print even after they refilled the paper tray. Apparently, that was changed at some time. I'm running cups on my computer, and cups doesn't notice and doesn't care even when I turn off the printer which is connected to the LPT port. --- I would think at least three times about it before using cups in a network environment again. For what I use it now, it works fine and is easy to use ... Have you tried using lprng? That should be easy to set up since they are using it and you can copy their setup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
