Re: GNOME Printing

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

On 13/06/04 15:31, Davyd Madeley wrote:

> Doesn't the cups queueing system already deal with this? It knows when a
> networked printer has completed it's job.
>  
Are you talking about the case where you explicitly configure a CUPS 
print spool to print to a network printer (eg. a JetDirect card), or 
where CUPS just discovers a CUPS server on the local network and uses a 
remote spool?

In the first case, CUPS should have similar information about when jobs 
finish as for printers connected by a parallel port.  In the second 
case, there are no spool file stored locally, and the remote printer 
isn't mentioned in any of the config files.

From my experience, no notification is sent back to the local 
workstation when the job gets completed in the remote print spool.  
There is an internet draft for a notification extension to the IPP 
protocol that would provide a way to do this, but I don't believe CUPS 
implements it yet.

James.

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