Start print immediately
Patrick Vanguardia
pvanguardia at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 16:37:09 PDT 2007
> Patrick Vanguardia wrote:
> >> Patrick Vanguardia wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible to start print immediately in cups? instead of spooling when the printer is not in paused mode? so it will take less time when printing a large size files?
> >> No, sorry.
> >>
> >> --
> >> ______________________________________________________________________
> >> Michael R Sweet Senior Printing System Engineer
> >>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to know if using MAC OS will be able to start print immediately?
>
> I assume you mean Mac OS X? Since it also uses CUPS, it has the same
> implementation and will not start printing immediately. Print jobs
> are spooled first, then filtered and sent to the printer.
>
> In particular, the PDF and PostScript formats generally require
> random access to the file in order to combine the various resources
> (fonts, images, etc.) onto each page and to do page selection and
> imposition.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael R Sweet Senior Printing System Engineer
>
Thanks
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