I have a server that for some reason won't print some jobs, possibly because the printer goes into unready state for various reasons.
Anyway, when this happens some jobs get stuck in the queue forever. When I bring the printer back online through cupsenable, old jobs are printed just fine, but some of the old ones are still stuck.

When I grep one the stuck jobs in the logs I get this result: http://pastebin.com/dAp3kzug

So it looks like some jobs are stopped when the printers go offline, and then they are never again started. Is there seome way to re-initiate these jobs?

You could try this
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu...question/94758

Did you know you can administer the cups server from a web page ?

http://localhost:631/

Yeah, I know I can administer cups from the web interface, but that's not really appropriate in this situation (besides, there doesnt' seem to be a solution to the problem there anyways).

That link was certainly nteresting though. I will try that out, thanks!