Printing order not identical with sending order

[Kurt Pfeifle]

> We have the following problem:
>
> We send many jobs in a short time to the printer Lexmark C524 (connected over local network) by lp command.

Are all jobs from the same CUPS client?

If the jobs are from different clients, are all clients using the same CUPS server?

> The problem is that the printer output order of the jobs is not the same as the sending order. Is it possible, that cupsd changes the printing order? We don’t use job priority control.
> Our operating system: SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386) - Kernel 2.4.19-4GB (7).
> Cups-Version: 1.1.12
>
> Is this a known problem? Is there some workaround?

Uhmm... this is a *very* old CUPS version, compared to what we have now. (And it is also a very old Linux version.)