Specifying a printer fault recovery mechanism
NOTE:
This section does not apply if you are making
a remote printer accessible to users on your system.
When a printer fault has been fixed and
the printer is ready for printing again,
the print service
will recover in one of three ways:
-
it will continue printing
at the top of the page where printing stopped
-
it will restart printing
at the beginning of the print request that was
active when the fault occurred
-
it will wait for you to tell the
print service to re-enable the printer
NOTE:
The ability to continue printing
at the top of the page where printing stopped
requires the use of a filter that can wait for
a printer fault to be cleared before resuming properly.
Such a filter has to have detailed knowledge
of the control sequences used by the printer
so it can keep track of page boundaries
and know where in a file printing stopped.
None of the filters supplied with the
print service can do this.
If a proper filter is not being used,
you will be notified in an alert if recovery
cannot proceed as you want.
To specify the way the print service will recover
after a fault has been cleared,
enter one of the following commands:
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printer-name -F continue
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printer-name -F beginning
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printer-name -F wait
These commands direct the
print service
to continue at the top of the page,
restart from the beginning,
or wait for you to enter an
enable(1M)
command to re-enable the printer.
If you do not specify how the
print service is to resume after a
printer fault,
it will try to continue at the top of the page where printing
stopped
or, failing that, at the beginning of the print request.
If the recovery is continue, but the interface program
does not stay running
so that it can detect when the printer fault has been cleared,
printing will be attempted every few minutes until it succeeds.
You can force the
print service to retry
immediately by issuing an enable command.
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 22 April 2004