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resuming a paused printer on 10.8

  • March 6, 2013
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Hi guys

i tried sudo lpadmin -E -p printer_name

but this disnt resume the printer. Has anyone else seen this in mountain lion?

Best answer by tkimpton

#!/bin/bash


printer=`lpstat -p | grep "disabled" | awk '{print $2}'`

cupsenable $printer

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    • tkimpton
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    • March 6, 2013

    it was cupsenable printer_name

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    • tkimpton
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    • March 6, 2013
    #!/bin/bash


printer=`lpstat -p | grep "disabled" | awk '{print $2}'`

cupsenable $printer
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    • JAMAUAI
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    • October 1, 2014

    I put this one-liner into a script and included it in our imaging - works like a charm!

    lpstat -p | grep "disabled" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -n 1 -I{} sudo cupsenable {}

    Thanks @tkimpton for the idea.

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      • adminNWA
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      • December 6, 2018

      I made two changes to the final script that was posted

      lpstat -p | grep -B 1 "Paused" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -n 1 -I{} sudo cupsenable {}

      The reason is that printers that ave been deleted can sometimes show in lpstat as being disabled. While I did not necessarily think that that would cause the script to fail, I only want to resume print queues that have been paused.

      In my OSX 10.13 the 'Paused' notification was displaying on the line below (as such)

      printer Buchan_2B disabled since Thu Dec 6 12:58:23 2018 - Paused

      so I added the -B 1 modifier.

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