[cups.general] Small delays between jobs

[Michael R Sweet]

tof wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am moving from an AIX 5.2 to Linux Ubuntu using CUPS as our spooler and it seems that cups introduce a delay between two jobs.
> 
> On the AIX, when you send 2 different jobs using the lp command, there are no pause, no delay between them.
> With cups, there is a small delay (about 4 or 5 seconds between each jobs). It's not so bad but it makes the users complain...
 > ...

There is a 5 second delay for AppSocket printers at the end to capture
any pending back-channel data from the device.  There is currently no
way to eliminate it.

There is a pending feature request (STR #2857) for this issue:

     http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2857

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer