Accepting or Rejecting Print Requests

The accept and reject commands--or the Accept Print Requests field in Printer Manager's Modify window--enable you to turn on or turn off a print queue that stores requests to be printed.

When you use the reject command, the print queue for a specified printer is turned off--no new print requests can enter the queue. All print requests that are in the queue are still printed. (You must disable the printer to stop it from printing requests that are already in the queue.)

When you use the reject command, the print queue for a specified printer is turned off--no new print requests can enter the queue. All print requests that are in the queue are still printed. You must disable the printer if you want it to stop printing requests that are already in the queue. Table 6-4 compares the functions of the accept/reject and enable/disable commands.

See "Processing or Stopping Printing" for information about disabling a printer.

If a print request is rejected, the print service writes a message to the user who submitted the request, saying that print requests are not being accepted for the specified printer.

You can also use the command-line interface to specify a reason for not accepting requests. The reason will be displayed on users' systems whenever they try to check the printer's queue.

Figure 6-1 shows the point at which processing of print requests is interrupted when a print queue rejects print requests.

Figure 6-1 What Happens When a Print Queue Accepts or Rejects Requests