On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jerome Alet wrote:

JA> What I understand (see above), is that the printer has to be idle for
JA> 5 seconds before it being trusted to really be idle.

Yes.

JA> I think chances that a job arrives before the printer being considered
JA> idle during these 5 seconds is great. Or does it make the next job
JA> wait so that there's never two jobs in the printer at the same time ?
JA> In this case doesn't this slow down printing a bit ?

No new is allowed to be sent to the printer before accounting of the last
job has completed. It gives a 10 second window between all jobs. This is
okay in order to be able to trust the accounting data. The printers as
fast (25-35 pages per minute) enough that the 10 seconds don't matter
much.

Henrik

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