Is this with a standalone hardware printer server, or a PC acting as a 
printer server? If the latter, with what software on the PC?

Our Print Wizard software for Windows can act as a printer server. We have 
*some* capabilities for job sequencing, and we could explore more options 
with you if this is critical.

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, George Gallen wrote:

> the debug info shows they were sent to the printer in the numerical unix job# 
> order.
> I disabled the printer, sent the jobs again, and the unix job# order was the 
> same
>    as the order sent, I renabled the printer and when the jobs printed they 
> were
>    in random order, according to the cups log, they were sent in the correct 
> order.
> 
> So it looks like it's the receiving print server that is sending them in 
> random 
>    order to the printer, of course the admin for that server swears it does 
> FIFO...
> 
> Thanks for the debug tip...
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:u2-users-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Romanow
> > Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 12:51 PM
> > To: U2 Users List
> > Subject: Re: [U2] CUPS printing and sequence of jobs
> > 
> > Maybe turn the logging up a notch and verify the order they are being
> > submitted?  It might not be considered "submitted" until it finishes
> > spooling, where a large job can be surpassed by smaller jobs.  We would
> > not really want it to "block" on large print jobs.  Take for instance
> > you start spooling an invoice run that may take 5-6 minutes to spool,
> > you do you not want to process any other jobs while this thing is
> > transferring to the queue?
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