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How to resume CUPS printer from command line?

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Mar 15, 2026167253 views
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I have printer in CUPS that due to driver problems (HP 1010) from time to time goes into pause. I would like to write a shell script that will execute once per hour to resume a printer in CUPS. But I have no idea after googling for couple of minutes how to resume printer from shell command line.

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There's the cupsenable command. starts a disabled printer (to find out the printername you can list your printers with or ). You may have to run the command as root or through sudo. So if you have to enable the printer in a shell script, you would have to add the shell to root's crontab, or edit your sudoers file.

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