[cups.development] Short Job Printer within a printer class?

[alet at unice.fr]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:19:05AM -0400, Andreas Bohne-Lang wrote:
> Problem: We are looking for a "short job printer" within a printer class of 3 single printers. This printer should only print jobs with less of 10 pages.
> 
> If using a printer class, CUPS do a load balancing like 'round robin'.
> 
> Is it possible to configure the single printer by page count?

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You could use Tea4CUPS and pkpgcounter for doing this, both
are freely available from http://www.pykota.com

Once installed what you want will be easily doable (probably less
than 15 minutes of mostly configuration work)
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hth

Jerome Alet