On Fri, 19 May 2006, baris nema wrote:
> I have a laser printer hooked up to my Linux print server (fedora core 4),
> and unfortunately whenever I send a large print job (more then 4 pages) to
> the printer it jams up. I am looking for a way to have my print server (I'm
> using cups), to automatically print 3-4 pages, pause for a minute, print
> another 3-4 pages, pause a minute, and keep going in that manner till the
> print job is over. Anybody have any ideas?
Instead of printing direcly to cups, I guess you could write a script (that
you print to instead) that sends the job as-is with the additional
instruction to print pages 1-3, sleep 60, sends it with the instruction to
print pages 4-6, sleep 60, etc. I guess the script should get cups' status
and wait until it's idle before it sends the next batch. (Can cups handle
multiple printers? Do you _have_ multiple printers?)
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