"intelligent" load balancing or duplex detection

[Michael Sweet]

Elvin Lee wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Many apologies if this has been addressed before in this newsgroup ... I 
> tried to do searches for this subject, but I did not find anything 
> appropriate.
> 
> I have two printers down here at the undergraduate labs -- an HP 
> LaserJet 8100N and an HP LaserJet 8100DN. The latter supports duplexing, 
> the former does not. Currently, the two printers are configured on a 
> machine which functions as our print server. A class is also present, 
> which contains both printers. Client computers print to the 
> ipp://server/classes/balance class, so their jobs are sent to one of the 
> two printers, as appropriate.
> 
> The problem, of course, is that only one of the printers support 
> duplexing. Is there a way that I can configure cups on the server to 
> automatically send duplex jobs to one of the printers in the class, 
> rather than choosing between the two?

Not at present; sounds like it might be a useful feature for some
people, tho.  You can file a RFE at:

     http://www.cups.org/str.php

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