sorted print out

[Helge Blischke]

Willi wrote:
> 
> If I have several pages to print and print them several times with sorted print out (page 1,2,3... 1,2,3,... 1,2,3... etc.), every page is separatly transformed into the file sent to the printer. Thus with colour prints with high resolution the system is almost blocked quite a time. Is there any possibility to send the printing file several times so that each page has to be transformed in to the printing data only once, but still is a sorted print??? In general, I do not understand why every page has to be calculated several times. I looks smarter to me if the printing command would be: send this file several times thus reducing the CPU-load.

What you do is printing collated copies. If the printer itself is able
to do this (i.e. has enough
memory to hold the whole print job etc.) *and* CUPS knows this (or can
be convinced to), then each page
will be rendered only once, and the saved bitmap will be printed several
times. That is what high-end
production printers usually do (like Xerox DocuTech or Ricoh Aficio,
just to mention two different ones).
But with the usual desktop printers, you usually are happy if the
printer will hold the data for one 
single page.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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