Printing large files

[Helge Blischke]

Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> 
> > Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to print large files (~30000 pages), when doing full print it starts to send data to the printer but after some minutes it's dies because of timeout (printer message). When printing subsets it starts to parse the file (it seems to)
> > > error_log:
> > > D [24/Feb/2005:02:38:27 -0300] [Job 68] 0 %%Page: 8178 8178
> > > D [24/Feb/2005:02:38:27 -0300] [Job 68] 0 %%Page: 8179 8179
> > > D [24/Feb/2005:02:38:27 -0300] [Job 68] 0 %%Page: 8180 8180
> > >
> > > and dies at page 8180 more or less
> > > command:
> > > lp -dnormal -P26891 iriartec-Feb21-153416.pdf
> > >
> > > Is there any procedure to print this kind of files?
> >
> > What kind of printer, how is it connected (URI)?
> > Desktop printers usually have problems with large print jobs.
> >
> > Helge
> >
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> > Helge Blischke
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> 
> It's a Xerox Phaser 3450 PCL6 - DeviceURI socket://10.129.4.159:9100
> It's just to make tests, and make the short print jobs, later the bulk print jobs will go to a Lanier printer (a bigger one, haven't seen it yet). But in the second case (subsets of the document) cups is not sending the job to the printer, it seems to look for the page indicated (26891 in my test) but dies at 8180.
> 
> Ciro

Does it fail as well if the page range begins with page 1?
Perhaps you could try with log level debug or debug2?

My suspicion is that the printer times out as it gets some data at the
beginning
of the job (initialization stuff etc.) and then has to wait too long a
time
until the data for the first page to be printed arrives.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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