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Disabling a print spooler

disable

disable is used to disable (or deactivate) a print queue. In general you should disable a printer queue before performing maintenance work on the printer.

disable Examples

[disable Sales]
This command disables the print queue named "Sales". Print jobs may still be queued to this print queue, but they will not be printed until the queue is enabled.

[disable -r "paper jam" Sales]
This command disables the print queue named "Sales", and provides a "reason" why the printer was disabled. Users requesting print status with the lpstat -t command will see the message "paper jam".


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