On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Hans Peter Verne wrote: HPV> Why not? HPV> HPV> Off-topic, I know. But it seems to me that most people (or at least HPV> many people, at the Univ. of Oslo) consider print services to be a HPV> real-time thing. They print, and plod over to the printer. If the HPV> job is not there, well, it must have been eaten somewhere, better go HPV> back and print again. Etc. etc. ad nauseaum. HPV> HPV> I don't know how many times I've cleared a stuck print queue for HPV> identical copies of the same job. I've played with the thought of HPV> having a per printer configurable max lifetime in the queue -- if the HPV> job has not been printed within 10 minutes, ditch it. Though luck!
I alert the user after 2 minutes of printer being down that the printer may be out of paper, toner or that a paper may be stuck. Then they can clear it. The drawback about your system is that users will begin printing 10 copies just be to be sure to get one in case they don't get to the printer in time to load paper into it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
