Slow down queue

[Helge Blischke]

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.

The client.conf file is to be used only if the local machine does not run a cupsd daemon.
Yoru local queues need to be handled by a local cupsd, and the remote queues are then known to
the olcal cupsd by either browsing or by having the cups.polld daemon configured and running.

Helge

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