[plug] cancelling a CUPS print job

[James Devenish]

[Apologies: this post won't be threaded properly because I am replying
after viewing the web archives -- the mailing list server is again
withholding the e-mail from me and/or other uwa.edu.au addresses, I
think.]

Mike Holland wrote:
> Does _anybody_ have CUPS working properly with a parallel printer?

Never had any problems (except that some specific job fail to produce
output, but I don't go into the details of why that is). Latest version
of CUPS I've used with parallel-port printers is 1.1.14 (which currently
works for me). Worked first time without any hassles whatsoever. Much
fewer problems than the HP software running under Windows 2000. The
printer is an HP and all jobs are PostScript. Maybe you could try
disabling language switching in the printer config or something. I do
seem to recall having to often SIGTERM or mayb even SIGKILL backend CUPS
processes for network-related CUPS backends when error conditions had
arisen, because they used to wait 'forever'.


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