load balancing/printer pools

JP jcmoral1978 at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 2 23:44:30 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
>
Thank you.  I didn't get a reply from them but I'll try contacting them again.  If I do get it working I'll post back here.




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