Delete Jobs on Shared Printer

[Daniel Hazelbaker]

On Dec 8, 2007, at 9:23 PM, Rick Davis wrote:

> You should be able to cancel jobs using the local CUPS interface.   
> Type 127.0.0.1:631 in any web browser and you should get the CUPS  
> management page. Click on Manage Printers, this should give you a  
> list of printers setup on the machine, click on the link to the  
> printer, you should see a list of active jobs, click on the job and  
> then cancel.

Well, I would like to avoid having my users go into their local cups  
interface.  While CUPS is fairly user friendly, I know that my users  
would manage to do something really stupid.

But aside from that, I have more information specifically.

In 10.5 Client this works fine, I must have done something twitchy the  
first time I tested.  I would assume this is because of the newer  
version of CUPS but I am not sure.

In 10.4 Client, Both the Printer Window and CUPS show the print job as  
completed (and thus gone) as soon as the print server accepts the job  
(thus it will keep trying to send the print job and the user has no  
control over it).  So again, I assume this is just a 10.4 "quirk"  
because of the older CUPS version so if somebody could verify this, I  
can live with the issues until we get everybody up to Leopard.  I  
would guess my only other option is to upgrade CUPS on the 10.4  
clients, but I am really not sure I want to even go there.
>


John Musbach wrote:

> Check the printer manual, usually printers themselves include the
> ability to cancel print jobs via a button or their menu interface

It does, but even if you cancel it the print server re-sends it.  Very  
annoying. :)

Daniel