[cups.general] load balancing/printer pools

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Dec 1 17:18:05 PST 2008


JP wrote:
> Is it possible to distribute a single print job to multiple printers?  For example two printers will print five pages each of a 10-page job.  I've tried Googling and searching various forums, but I've only found that entire print jobs can be sent to different printers.  Thanks.

CUPS currently only distributes whole jobs between multiple queues.
Third-party add-ons like Tea4CUPS can probably break the job up over
multiple printers.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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