I tend to send things to print, even when not connected to my printer (via usb). This allows it to print the minute I connect the printer, which is nice when I am on my laptop. It used to work, even if I didn't connect my printer for a day or two, but now it doesn't. The print jobs seem to die after 3 hours. Any help?
Print jobs cancelled if waiting too long
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I found a document called the "AirPortExpressSetupGuide.pdf", which has an answer to the first part of my question:
All of the compatible computers on the AirPort network, both wireless and wired, can print to it.
So there seems to be no restriction on where you can print from.
iOS seems to have removed the ability to print to any printers except the 2 new ones HP is selling, so that's out. Oh well.
I had the same problem and this is what I did to fix it:
Go to
http://localhost:631/If you get the "Web Interface is Disabled" message, run
cupsctl WebInterface=yesin Terminal.Choose the Administration tab.
Click Add Printer.
If you are required to login, use a local Administrator account.
Select the printer (in my case it was automatically found).
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Printing in OS X is handled by CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System. Older versions of OS X had older versions of CUPS. A new
It's not a bug, It's a"feature" was added in CUPS 1.6, which corresponds to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, in order to prevent stuck jobs.The
MaxJobTimeoption, which defaults to 10800 seconds (3 Hours), will cancel the active print job on a printer that has timed out. The next job in the queue will start, either printing or eventually timing out.From the cups.conf man page:
Editing
/etc/cups/cupsd.confto includeMaxJobTime 0to disable this "Feature".In my specific case, I used to be on 10.6.8 Snow Leopard until finally updating to 10.10 Mavericks, and wasn't aware of the change.