On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Ashley GC wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Henrik Edlund wrote: > > See Appendix A on page 39 (PDF page 55) in > > http://www.ep.liu.se/exjobb/ida/2003/dd-c/019/exjobb.pdf where I wrote > > some stuff about it.
> The problem I have is that synchronous printing and page > counting causes a 17 second delay between jobs, due to the time taken > between end of spooling and the first page coming out, which is due to > the long paper path of our HP LaserJet 8150. > > I've drawn a diagram: > http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csuwf/printing.pdf (there's a .ps too) I can confirm that the same thing happens with both our 8150s and HP LaserJet 4000 series printers. If you turn on accounting, a 17-18 second delay is added between each job. It seems to be an issue with the printer "spinning up": there is almost zero difference (less than a second) in total print time for the first job. It's only a problem if the queue is backed up. I'm hoping to talk to our HP technical rep. to find a way to keep the printers active and rolling for 30 seconds after each job. I'm hoping that this'll reduce the start-up lag. I'm also quite interested in Ashley's PJL work and in software-based accounting: if we go to quotas, they'll probably be high enough that we won't care about a few miscounted pages. -willie ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
