[KLUG Members] printing and Linux

[Dirk H Bartley]

> > But in Linux once print job is fired it is lost in black hole. 
> 
> Never.  I haven't "lost" a print job on LINUX in years and years.  I can
> go into the printer server via a nice web interface and reprint a job
> that I successfully printed 24 hours ago.

This has never worked for me.  Always get "client-error-forbidden" in
the web browser when trying.  Sure would like to know the fix.

>   Or I can hold a printer and
> jobs will nicely accumulate for weeks.
> 

I've lost jobs.  Lost considerably less since:  I stopped trying to have
reduntant cups servers serving up the same printer and changed one
particular problem printer from a jetdirect connection to a smb://
connection.

Also occasionally will lose a barcode print job that goes through an
ltsp jet direct style port (9100).  The only way I have found to fix is
to reboot the ltsp client and the jobs are always lost.

Dirk