Moving spooled job to another printer

[Stuart Powell]

I've been looking around in the man pages for a command to move spooled print jobs from one printer to another. Is there such a command or am I dreaming?

[Timo Ruiter · Accepted solution]

Try the lpalt command.
Remember that once printing has begun, you cannot redirect it any longer.

Regards,

Timo

[Stuart Powell]

I found the answer. I should have searched the problem resolution area first. The command to use in lpmove. The only catch is that the scheduler has to be down first.
Anybody with recent experience of lpmove that could shed anymore light on the subject is welcome to respond.

Thanks.

[Pete Randall]

Stuart,

Here are a couple of recent threads on altering print jobs that may help:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x9056b10230dcd61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x32cfa848deccd61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

Pete

[Stuart Powell]

Thanks for the help. I had found lpmove but didn't find lpalt until your messages.

Stuart

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

try this,

jr0001:{root}# lpstat pt0060
pt0060-10 root 3896 Nov 04 14:00

jr0001:{root}# lpmove pt0060-10 nt13:pt0060
total of 1 requests moved to pt0060

where nt13 is a name of another printserver.


Regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Belinda Dermody]

Here is a little script that I wrote
!/bin/sh
#
# LPMOVE6.SH Shell script to use the lpalt command to move a group
# of files from one print que to another.
#
# Arguements Two(2) are required, you need the original printer
# and the new destination printer name.
#
#
# lpmove6.sh , 1.2
# 09/14/00 , 16:25:27
#
# 08/22/00 JAM Sr
#============================================================================


ORG_PRTR=6
NEW_PRTR=va22_hp21

# create the file of print outputs
while [ 0 ]
do
echo `date` Checking the $ORG_PRTR queue for print request
HR=`date +%H`
if [ $HR -gt 17 ]; then
exit
else
lpstat -o${ORG_PRTR} |grep ^${ORG_PRTR} |awk '{print $1}' > /tmp/prt.log
if [ -s /tmp/prt.log ]; then
for i in `cat /tmp/prt.log`
do
echo $i
lpalt ${i} -d${NEW_PRTR}
done
fi
sleep 300
fi
done

rm /tmp/prt.log