Printing summit - LSM2005

Printing cancellation

Why cancel a printing ?

Paper jam

Wrong request

Wrong document

Excessive number of pages

Incorrect ink flow

Wrong paper

Wrong size

A lot of troubles, scenario

Emergency action: the user switch off the printer.

When printer is again powered on, it prints few characters on each page. This can need thousands of pages. The printer is switched off again.

The printing is achieved by a remote computer. Job # and root password are unknown.

All the buffers are not clean after a cancelled job

The computer is rebooted or reinstalled !

Why not cancel a printing ?

Official printing : each document must be printed.

Problems...

Printers restart in default mode (mostly text mode)

Only system administrators can restart printing

Split the problem...

Current status is useful in some offices.

The user must be able to cancel his own printings

Some printers can restart from the page in error

Configuration file : all or selected printers.

Default configuration : allow user to control his job

CREATE A BACKWARD LINK

Show the printing status

Job # submitted to printer ...

Waiting for N minutes

Printing: nn % done

Ending in N minutes

Done

Button to cancel the job and restart it cleanly.

implementation

Your ideas ?

2005-07-04T13:43:36