print order print queue

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Wed Nov 29 04:48:06 PST 2006


peter camerlynck wrote:
> Hi, in order to implement cups as printspooler in our environment, we need to be sure that the print queue is guaranteed by the fifo principle. So that the jobs submitted to a printer, will be served first in , first out.
> Can someone confirm this?
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
It depends on the job-priority attribute, and by changing the priority, you can move
a job up and down the queue.

For a strict FIFO behaviour you need to somehoe restrict the
priority to one single unique value.

Helge


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