How To Set Up CUPS For PASSTHRU Printing in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Issue

• Created printer using the following command:

  lpadmin  -p <print queue name> -E -v socket://<fully qualified address>
  

  got the following entry in /etc/cups/printer.conf:

  <Printer NAME>
  Info NAME
  DeviceURI socket://<FQDN>
  State Idle
  StateTime 1358890291
  Accepting Yes
  Shared Yes
  JobSheets none none
  QuotaPeriod 0
  PageLimit 0
  KLimit 0
  OpPolicy default
  ErrorPolicy stop-printer
  </Printer>
  

  When jobs are sent to this printer, they sit in the print queue with the following message:

  lpstat -t <queue name>
  "recoverable: printer is busy, trying again in 30 seconds...."