Printer fault recovery mechanisms
Printer fault recovery mechanisms allow the print service to recover when a printer fault has been fixed and the printer is ready for printing again.
Note: This information does not apply if you are making a remote printer
accessible to users on your system.
When a printer fault has been fixed and the printer is ready for printing again, the print service will recover in the following ways:
- It will continue printing at the top of the page where printing stopped
- It will restart printing at the beginning of the print request that was active when the fault occurred
- It will wait for you to tell the print service to re-enable the printer
Note: The ability to continue printing at the top of the page where printing
stopped requires the use of a filter that can wait for a printer fault to
be cleared before resuming properly. Such a filter must have detailed knowledge
of the control sequences used by the printer so it can keep track of page
boundaries and know where in a file printing stopped. None of the filters
supplied with the print service can do this. If an appropriate filter is not
being used, you will be notified in an alert if recovery cannot proceed as
you want.