Disabling round-robin printing to a class

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Nov 21 14:34:08 PST 2005


a42n8k9 at dejazzd.com wrote:
> We have a situation where we have two "stream-formatting" servers that convert textual data to a graphical form.  I've set up CUPS to print to both of our servers and created a class as well.
> 
> Our unique situation is that the order in which the jobs are submitted is the order in which they must make it to the printer.  By printing to the class, CUPS sends out the jobs in round-robin fashion.  Unfortunately this creates the case where job #2 can make it to the printer before job #1.
> 
> Can the round-robin functionality within CUPS be disabled when
 > printing to a class?

Nope, otherwise the class would be pretty much useless in the general
case.

 > Is this something that is configurable or hard-coded?

It is not configurable.  The behavior is "by design", however you'll
find several RFEs for enhanced class support which add things from
priorities to fan-out modes.  Feel free to add your requirements to
the mix...

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