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Old 06-19-2013
Get Notification at end of print
Hi everybody,

i want to know if a print was well done and if it's finished.

How can i do that ? Must i do something in /etc/printcap ?

Thanks in advance Smilie
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Old 06-19-2013
Which UNIX ? See man for lpstat, lpq but usually the trick is capturing the id of the print at submit time!

The real solution is to email a pdf and stop killing trees! https://www.unix.com/man-page/all/1/ps2pdf/ Smilie
Last edited by DGPickett; 06-19-2013 at 05:40 PM..
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Old 06-19-2013
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Originally Posted by shibien
i want to know if a print was well done and if it's finished.
In most cases this will not be possible. Most (network) printers have separate spooling memories which can easily hold several print jobs. When they signal the queueing host that they are "finished" that means they have received the complete job and it is in their memory. (Pretty much like a write-behind cache with disks.) There is often no way for the host to find out otherwise.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 
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