Specifying a printer fault recovery mechanism

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You can specify a printer fault recovery mechanism with the lpadmin command.

To specify the way the print service will recover after a fault has been cleared, enter one of the following commands:

  • /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printer-name -F continue
  • /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printer-name -F beginning
  • /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printer-name -F wait

These commands direct the print service to continue at the top of the page, restart from the beginning, or wait for you to enter an enable command to re-enable the printer.

If you do not specify how the print service is to resume after a printer fault, it will try to continue at the top of the page where printing stopped or, failing that, at the beginning of the print request.

If the recovery is continue, but the interface program does not stay running so that it can detect when the printer fault has been cleared, printing will be attempted every few minutes until it succeeds. You can force the print service to retry immediately by issuing an enable command.