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? > > _______________________________________________ > > U2-Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > Regards, ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [email protected] company e-mail: [email protected] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
