On Fri, 19 May 2006, Kwan Lowe 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?
>
> 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;
> }
What happens when numpages=5, on the second pass (pages 5-8)? Is pselect
smart enough to tolerate nonexistent pages?
Don't forget to rm $postscript_filename $tempfile when you're done.
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