IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> printer-is-accepting-jobs

Re: IPP> printer-is-accepting-jobs

kugler@us.ibm.com
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:38:30 -0600

venkatesh <venk-@teil.soft.net> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/ipp/?start=6386
> The Printer Object attribute "printer-is-accepting-jobs" when set to
> 'false'
> the printer object stops accepting any print job requests.
>
> Assume that initially "printer-is-accepting-jobs" is set to true.
> If a client issues a Create-Job request and if the Printer object
> process the request successfully it returns the Job-URI and Job-ID.
> Suppose now the Administrator of the Printer Object set
> "printer-is-accepting-jobs"
> attribute to 'false' will the Prinetr Object accept any Send-Document
> and
> Send-URI operation for the Job created before.
>

Yes. Send-Document and Send-URI are not Job creation operations, so they should
be accepted. This becomes more important with the Ops Set 2 "Disable-Printer"
operation which allows a client to set "printer-is-accepting-jobs" to 'false'.

-Carl

> Regds
> N.Venkatesh