CUPS scalability, and AFP

[Helge Blischke]

Michael Sweet wrote:
> Morlaix wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> - Has CUPS already been used in industrial printing environments? (for 
>> example 100.000 pages per hour, on continuous-feed printers, with jobs 
>> of more than 50.000 pages)
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> - Does CUPS support AFP (advanced function presentation) / IPDS ?
> 
> 
> No.
> 
But, for a defined subset of IPDS (e.g. fax encoded images) one could
easily write a Ghostscript based filter. As for the speed achievable,
I recently did a preliminary conversion test and got some 500 pages per
minute in a Sun Fire 210 box.

Helge


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