> 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?
If you can get the jobs in Postscript format (should be pretty simple), then you can
use the psselect command to specify which pages to print. You can grab the number
of pages by looking for "%%Pages: " in the Postscript file. Create a script does
something like this:
for ( $i=1; $i <= $numpages; $i+=4 ) {
startp = $i;
endp = $i + 3;
psselect -p$startp,$endp $postscript_filename $tempfile;
lpr $tempfile;
sleep 60;
}
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