Move Print Request in Queue

[MikeL_4]

We have a printer that broke that has several reports queued up to it. Is there a command to move these request to another printer queue for printing ??

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Mike,

Try "lpalt (id) -d(newdest)"


Pete

[Rick Garland]

The lpmove command can do it also.

Note that the lpsched must be shutdown for this to work. If you have a lot of jobs to move, write a for loop shell script that will do the moves.

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

The requests for one printer can be moved to other printer via lpmove command also. In this case your faulty printer should be disabled & scheduler should be shut.

#disable prnflt
#lpshut
#lpmove prnflt prngood
#lpsched

( Where prnflt & prngood is the name of your Faulty & Good Printers respectively)

Your good printer should start printing if it is enabled.