(stdin)

[norman]

> > I have just finished copying and printing four pages of manuscript using
> > XSane. During the process the printer icon appears in the top panel, as
> > it should. When the printing is completed the icon is still in the
> > panel, as it shouldn't. Right click on the icon followed by 'open' tells
> > me that I have four items waiting to be printed, each one called
> > (stdin). They are said to be 2.5MB in size and in the job-stopped state.
> > Resume printing has no effect and the icon disappears only after
> > deleting the four items.
> 
> This may be because the printing system is trying to get some status
> information from the printer but can't for some reasons.
> Check your printer confdiguration.  
> /var/log/cups/error.log may contain additional informations (needs root
> privileges to read)

Printer configuration seems to be OK and the error.log is empty.
> 
> > As far as I can find out (stdin) is said to be the place where a process
> > usually takes its input, by default, the key board. Can anyone suggest
> > why (stdin) appears as an item to be printed following the use of XSane?
> 
> That's nothing special. It's a common way of printing to pipe the data
> into the lp or lpr command and xsane is just doing that.

I think I can understand that, thanks.

Norman