interleaving pages of jobs

[Helge Blischke]

John Beamon wrote:
> 
> cups 1.1.19 on departmental print server and workstation, both RHL9.
> Canon iR-3300 printer near the server.
> 
> 1.  If I set up the Canon as a local queue on the workstation, so that
> the workstation talks directly to the Canon without the department cups
> server, I have no problem.  I can submit job1 and job2 and job3 almost
> simultaneously, and they spool into the printer and come out collated
> into separate jobs.
> 
> 2.  If I set up the Canon as a print queue on the department cups server
> and have the workstation browse the cups server for its printcap, I have
> a problem.  I can submit job1 and job2 and job3 almost simultaneously,
> and they spool into the printer and come out as if someone had taken two
> new decks of cards and shuffled them together.  The pages come out like so.
> 
> job1-1
> job1-2
> job2-1
> job1-3
> job2-2
> job2-3
> job1-4
> job1-5
> job2-4
> job1-6
> 
> The correct word for this is "interleaving", but there are no Google
> results for "cups interleav" that have anything to do with printing in Unix.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

Are you using banner pages (option job-sheets=...)?
Or are you printing each page as a separate file?

Helge

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