The accept and reject commands--or the Accept Print Requests field in Admintool's Modify Printer 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 on the print server. 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 42-7 compares the functions of the accept, reject, enable, and disable commands.
Table 42-7 Functions of accept/reject and enable/disable Commands
Command |
Function |
---|---|
accept |
Accept print requests that are sent to the print queue. |
enable |
Print the requests that are in the print queue. |
reject |
Reject print requests that are sent to the print queue. |
disable |
Stop printing requests that are currently in the print queue. |
See "Processing or Stopping Printing" for information about disabling a printer.
If a print request is rejected, the print service writes or mails a message to the user who submitted the request, saying that print requests are not being accepted for the specified printer.
You can also specify a reason for not accepting requests through the command line. The reason is displayed on users' systems when one tries to check the printer's queue. Figure 42-2 shows the point at which processing of print requests is interrupted when a print queue rejects print requests.