How do you pause/unpause a print queue using the CUPS API? Using CUPS API I can check the printer-state using cupsGetOption(). If this returns a value of 5, I know the printer is stopped or paused. I'd like to unpause the printer in this case, is there a way to do this?
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2could not resist: when I read the title the first thing that popped to mind was "use a hammer". :) – akonsu Jul 23 '13 at 21:26
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That would definitely work for stopping any incoming jobs.. – trueinViso Jul 23 '13 at 21:28
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1Can't find any libraries that do this, but I found I could make a system call to cupsenable. – trueinViso Jul 23 '13 at 22:53
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You could use cups' ipptool to execute ipp operations:
#!/usr/bin/env ipptool -tv ipp://localhost/printers/your_queue
{
OPERATION Resume-Printer
GROUP operation-attributes-tag
ATTR charset attributes-charset utf-8
ATTR language attributes-natural-language en
ATTR uri printer-uri $uri
}
You might be asked for a password though.
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