Stopping a printing job, take up another high priority job and then go on with the first job ...

[Michael Sweet]

mylbco wrote:
> I am using CUPS (Redhat Enterprise 4.2)
> I have a problem, every morning the invoices are printed, this is
> taking more than 2 hours on our copier. But when somebody wants to
> print something small (eg) an small report, he/she has to wait until
> all 2000 documents are printed. Is it possible to interupt the first
> job and just print the 2 or 3 pages and then take on again the rest
> of the first job ?

Not at present.  The main issue is reliably interrupting a job and
then restarting at the same place.  It isn't impossible, but at the
same time it isn't easy or reliable unless you have total control
over the print engine (which we don't...)

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