[cups.general] Question re printing big files in duplex from ar7.05

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

I loaded up the printer, trying to print the latest version of the advanced 
bash scripting book using acroread-7.05, selecting the usual lp2, the 
quick draft (360x360 full color) version of my elderly C82, which for some 
unk reason refuses to die on epsons schedule.  Cups is 1.1.23, using the 
gutenprint-5.0-rc2 ppds which have been working nicely now for about a 
year.

I set it for even pages, forward order, so there are 254 pages to process.

According to localhost:631 printers display, its currently processing page 
248, and the output file in /var/spool/cups/tmp is just above half a gig.  
That in itself is not a problem as I have a 10GB partition on a seperate 
drive as /var.  Its also reporting the odd pages too if I refresh the page 
in FF frequently.  I don't recall seeing that behaviour before.

But the printer hasn't started yet!  Is it normal for it to buffer the 
whole job like that?  I certainly don't recall it working in this manner 
before.

Hummm, while I'm typing this, the printer finally started, on page 2 as 
requested.  Weirdsville.

Comments anybody?  As in this is normal behaviour? Oh, and I'm using beh 
too.

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