Re: ever see an HP 1018 laser Jet? why do print job disappear?

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Paul Johnson wrote:

Do you (anybody) agree that it is a pretty bad bug in CUPS that it
does not report any trouble with this printer?  It thinks jobs are
printing, but they don't.  Other times, when the driver is wrong, the
jobs pile up in the print que and errors show in the CUPS
configuration tool.

pj

Its a bug, but it is hard to say if it is a CUPS bug, or a bug in the print driver. If the driver does does not generate an error, then CUPS has no way to know the print job didn't print normally. If the driver does not report back at all, then CUPS does not know if it is still printing, or what. I guess it could generate a timeout error in that case. (But I have one printer that when you are using manual feed will wait forever for you to push the button that tells it you have loaded the paper.) If the driver returns normally, then as far as CUPS know, everything printed fine.

Of course, if it is a CUPS drive, then it is still a CUPS problem, but if it is a third party driver, then it is not really a CUPS problem.

Mikkel
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