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On 04/09/11 01:43, Julian Hall wrote:
You must remember that CUPS is meant to be SME capable. That means you may have no clue as to the state of the printer four floors down as a user. I think CUPS suffers from the 'works well enough' - most IT managers in large offices who’ve used windows all their lives expect problems and this has an 'easy' fix. Big companies like HP who use it don’t seem to offer fixes to the open source part - just their own proprietary extensions. And being sort of enterprise standard means its not quite out of the box ready for homes. But as I keep banging on - the solution in 99.99% of cases is to provide computer shaped documents that don’t need to be printed. Though if anyone knows where to get that invisible ink they use on receipts I could do with some of that for a few contracts ...On 03/09/2011 21:04, Simon Waters wrote:On 03/09/11 13:42, Gordon Henderson wrote:Is that what is to be expected when using CUPS?A quick Google suggests this is common behaviour if printers are not available for the default timeout period of 300 seconds.Such as if they're off.. the point I was trying to make.It should log a timeout message in the CUPS log.One can set the timeout to 0 if your printer is commonly not available for extended periods of time, or change the default error policy (which is stop-printer).I don't think this is necessarily a bad default behaviour.I mean it could completely ignore printers that are unresponsive, but that would mean they are displayed as available even when they are long gone.I've never seen this behaviour and my printer is always switched off unless I'm going to print something.....Mine too. Julian
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