cups is being a PIMA

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

Since apple has discontinued the cups mailing list, we don't have anyplace 
to ask cups related questions but on the distro's own lists.  So here 
goes. With a bit of venom:

I just spent the better part of an hour, and many many trips up and down 
the stairs to where my B&W laser, a Brother HL-2140 is located.  Trips up 
and down the stairs these almost 80 yo legs didn't appreciate a bit.

This printer, I know for a fact, can run out of paper and sit there 
patiently waiting for paper, hours/days/maybe even weeks if there is no 
power failure, for me to put more paper in it and it will take right off 
from where it was at and finish the currently hung print job. I've had it 
set to do so for the 3 years I've had this printer.

But some well informed genius, in a fairly recent cups update of the 10.04 
LTS tree, has seen fit to make cups disable the printer, making you go 
thru fire'y hoops canceling jobs to completely clean up the queue before a 
service cups restart will re-enable the printer. Doing a restart with jobs 
in the queue doesn't do it. It must start with a clean slate.  There was a 
time when a simple cups restart was sufficient, regardless of what was in 
the queue.

So: Where/What do I edit to restore the cupsd's ability to patiently wait 
on a printer that has run out of paper?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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