Slow down queue

Franz Pförtsch franz.pfoertsch at brose.net
Tue Jan 3 00:38:18 PST 2006


Hi Greg,

what kind of printer are you using? ZPL2-Printer?
Is your job preformated? -> The use the -o raw option to supress filtering.

regards
Franz

Greg Jones wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a serial label printer connected to a Stallion EasyServerII. The
>> EasyServer is listening for connections and passes the job to the serial
>> port.
>>
>> My problem is that jobs in quick succession get lost. For example if I
>> send jobs to it like this:
>>
>> for i in `seq 1 1 5` ; do lp -d label2 ${i}_barcode_label ; done
>>
>> I will get the first and no more. If I change the above statement to
>> include a 2 sec delay it seems to work ok.
>>
>> How do I add this delay? Or better yet how can I force cups to only send
>> 1 jobs to it at a time. Looking at the output of the netstat command it
>> seems like all jobs have gone to the printserver at once!!
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Greg.
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to give some info on my setup. I'm running RHEL v4 with
> kernel 2.6.9-5.ELsmp.
> 
> My version of cups is: rpm -q cups
> cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9
> 
> The printer is setup as a socket, raw printer. The data files are quite
> small, about 1k.
> 
> I've looked through the options in cupsd-config but nothing seems obvious
> to me. Would a pseudo printer do this?
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Greg.





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