cupsdisable

cupsdisable [-E] [-U user] [-c] [-h server[:port]] [-r reason] [--hold] destination...

cupsdisable stops a CUPS printer or class from processing further jobs. By default, the in-progress job continues to print but new jobs queue up until the destination is re-enabled with cupsenable. With -c, all jobs are cancelled; with --hold, the current job finishes and remaining jobs are placed on hold (release them later with cupsenable --release).Requires CUPS administrator privileges (member of the lpadmin group or root).

-c

Cancel all jobs queued on the destination after disabling it.

Reason message attached to the stopped state and reported by lpstat.

Force encryption of the connection to the CUPS server.

Authenticate as user instead of the current login.

Connect to a specific CUPS server (default: $CUPS_SERVER, then localhost:631).

Hold all remaining queued jobs once the current one finishes — useful for performing maintenance after the in-flight job completes.

In CUPS 1.5+ the same binary is also installed as cupsdisable for backwards compatibility with the historical Berkeley disable command — in fact the canonical name is cupsdisable. Some distributions ship it only under that name.

cupsenable(1), cupsaccept(1), cupsreject(1)