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

[Michael Sweet]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.

I suspect that beh is spooling to disk before running the backend.
The IPP and LPD backends behave like this as well, but all other
(CUPS standard) backends will start copying the print file to the
device immediately...

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