maximum numbers of printers in cups?

Fri Mar 18 02:14:01 PST 2005

> There are no preset limits, and we have customers with 10,000+
> printers on a single server (although we wouldn't recommend that
> in general... :)

Glad to here that :)

> The main issues will be memory usage, which in 1.1.23 should be
> reasonable for 1100 printers, and tuning the browsing parameters
> to not overwhelm the network (assuming that you are printing from
> clients and using the CUPS browse stuff...)

We don't use browsing since the print jobs are all done on commandline with lp/lpr from our server-program.

best regards,
Johannes