Slow down queue

[Anonymous]

>
> Hello,
>
> On Jan 3 01:19 Greg Jones wrote (shortened):
> > > 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.
> ....
> > > .. 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!!
> ....
> > The printer is setup as a socket, raw printer.
>
> For one print queue the cupsd processes only one job at the
> same time (this is the main purpose of a queue: serialize
> multiple requests).
>
> Obviously the firmware in the printserver box is broken
> because it accepts new jobs even if it cannot process them.
>

Hi Johannes,

thanks for your reply. I did end up following your suggestion and got it all working. The delay problem was solved by changing an option on the print server.

I did have to setup two filters, one to convert preformatted espon to postscript and another to append form feeds at the end of the job. All works exactly as I needed.

I now have a followup question.

I read at the SUSE website that in order for a remote host to print to the cups server and make sure that the filters are used then I needed to enable the ServerName line in the client.conf. So I did that and it works great but it seems that now I cannot see now local queues. Is it at all possible to have local queues and use the remote ones as described?

Thanks in advance.


Greg.