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From: hw <hw@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: print jobs while others are being prepared?
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:15:21
Message-Id: 57D93F4C.7040505@gc-24.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: print jobs while others are being prepared? by Jigme Datse Rasku
1 Jigme Datse Rasku schrieb:
2 > This seems like it should be possible. The potential issue would be how to ensure a whole job is printed, before a new job is sent. With a single cups process sending to the printer, it should be able to print as jobs get prepared. But configuring such might not be possible with current setup...
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4 I would expect CUPS to do that out of the box. Once a job has been
5 processed, it can be sent to the printer as a whole and it won´t be
6 possible for other jobs to be printed in between.
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8 Since CUPS doesn´t seem to do it out of the box, maybe there´s a
9 setting I need to change to make it do this?
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14 > On Sep 13, 2016 09:50, "hw" <hw@×××××.de <mailto:hw@×××××.de>> wrote:
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17 > Hi,
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19 > is it possible to make cups print a job while another job is still
20 > being processed, on the same printer?
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22 > Processing a large job can take quite some time, and the printer is
23 > idle while the large job is being processed and other, smaller jobs,
24 > are idly waiting in the queue for the large job to finish.
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26 > I want like a maximum of 20 jobs being processed at the same time so
27 > that the printer can print the ones that have already been processed
28 > immediately when their processing has finished.
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30 > Why should cups be limited to use only one CPU?
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