Public bug reported:
This certainly happens in Intrepid. I've got a printer connected to a
remote machine; on certain times that machine is powered off for various
reasons.
While I can queue jobs manually from the command line (for example, "lpr
output.pdf"), if I try to print from evince, epiphany or any other
program using the default gtk+ printing dialog, and I select the shared
printer, the "Print" button is disabled, and thus I cannot queue any
job.
I consider this a regression and a bug (not a feature). In my office,
for example, there may be cases when the printing server is down,
however twenty-thirty people want to queue jobs remotely, and come and
retire their sheets only an hour later.
They don't care if the printing server is up or not, and that is the
benefit of having a local spooling server: as soon as the machine is up
again all the jobs in queue get printed.
They just want to send a job and forget about it. Expecially if they're
printing orders from the sales department, and the sheets get collected
only twice per day from the archivist in another room ten km off.
Not being able to spool jobs for a unreacheable printer if you're
roaming with your laptop, or if the server is down, is quite a drawback
in my opinion.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Cannot queue jobs to a remote printing server if shutted down
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254030
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