On Wed 29 Jul 2015 at 14:21:20 +0200, Tuxo Holic wrote:

> Thanks Brian and Jochen for the efforts, but switching off services to
> remove the queue and end up with no advertised printer is not an
> option as well.

So you want the printer to be advertised. In your first mail you said:

  I'd prefer network printers to be invisible on the client side, as
  long as they are not online.

Now you want them visible. Why?
 
> So the main goal I was aiming at seems to be not available which was:
> give notification to the user, that this network printer is switched
> off or out of service due to maintenance, paper jam or what other
> reason you could think of.

Adapt the script to do

  cupsreject -r "PrinterSwitchedOff" HP_LaserJet_1020

Tested successfully on a client not running cups, which was something
else you were interested in. 


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