Enable/Disable CUPS Printer

Enable/Disable CUPS Printer:

CUPS can be cranky sometimes, if there is more than 500 jobs in a queue (defined in cups.conf) it will disable a printer, that way you know there is a problem.

do a lpstat -a to get a list of printers

Enable CUPS Printer:

now add the -p option, to check if the printer is enabled

Ah Ha! LexmarkT520 is disabled, run cupsenable {printer-name}

yay, it’s working again.

Disable CUPS Printer: