[cups.general] how to do sinle queueing [linux-linux like xp-linux]

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 28, at 2:15, litlle girl wrote:
> The easiest thing to do is create a /etc/cups/client.conf file on the
> client with the following:
>
>     ServerName hostname-or-ip-of-server
>
> That will cause the client to queue all jobs on the server.
>
> yes this is a partial solution,
> a was using /etc/cups/client.conf
> until i have local usb printer for small prints,
> all big jobs goes to server.


Print-while-spooling is a Windows thing, and a holdover from when  
printers were always connected locally and unshared.  It works poorly  
in shared printing situations, which is the default assumption on  
Unix, so Unix spoolers don't support it.

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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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