How To Set Up CUPS For PASSTHRU Printing in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Issue
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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...."
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
- cups-1:1.3.7-30.e15
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