On Fri, 19 May 2006, Daniel Jarboe wrote:
> On 5/19/06, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>> 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?)
>
> Script is right track, but likely best to have the script act as a new
> cups backend. That way he doesn't have to jump through hoops to print
> from various applications. Just print to printer named LaserSplit (for
> example) configured to use the split script backend, which in turn sends
> the output to printer named Laser using whatever backend he had originally
> configured.
Yes, fair enough. That would be tougher for me to do (since I don't know
the interfaces involved), but if Mr. Nema does, go for it.
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