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On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Julian Hall wrote:
On 03/09/2011 13:42, Gordon Henderson wrote:So... I'm really not impresssd with CUPS.Laserjet printer was turned off this morning. Wifey boots her PC. Tries to print something on it. Turns printer on. Nothing. PC is reporting that the printer is "paused". (The job is queued but won't print)
Personally I always make sure the printer is on *before* trying to print to it.. whatever method I'm using
That's not at all helpful.Having to reboot, or enter the root password just because a printer in another room was turned off really really isn't helpful.
What if you turned your PC on to play games or check email, then decided to do some work which requred printing an invoice and found that you had to save your work and reboot before you could print...
Do you seriously put up with that?For over 30 years I've been able to send a file to a printer connected to parallel, serial or USB and not wory if it's turned on or not - using lpd. If this is the default behaviour of CUPS, then it's a huge step backwards IMO.
My fear is the Gnome is too tightly wedded to CUPS to be able to remove it and replace it with something sensible. However, I'm using xfce4 and printing seems OK using lpr, so maybe there's hope.
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