Moving print jobs to different queues

[John Curtis]

How can I move print jobs from one queue to another? Can I use LPALT for this?

Thanks

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

You can use lpmove to move the prit jobs from queue to the other.

-Sri

[Jordan Bean]

You may use lpalt or lpmove, but the latter requires the scheduler to be down.

[Anil C. Sedha]

Hi,

You may use LPALT for this.

I use lpmove as follows

lpstat ( view the requests you want to move )

lpshut (shutdown the scheduler before moving requests)

lpmove request printer

or lpmove printer1 printer2

lpsched (start the print spooler)

Regards,
Anil

[John Curtis]

How do I use LPALT without shutting down LPSCHED?

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

Try this ..(example: moving spool file "laser5-865" from printer "laser5" to printer "laser6")
# disable laser5
# lpalt laser5-865 -dlaser6
# enable laser5
Use "lpstat" to check if the file has been moved or not.

[Fred Martin_1]

I use lpalt all the time for this, as described above (lpalt src-1234 -ddestlp) but I don't mess with a job that's currently printing; I let it finish on the original printer.

One caution, don't move a job to a printer that is radically different than the original...for example we have OKI dot matrix printers and DEC dot matrix printers and they are not compatible with regards to codes for compressed print etc.

Fred