[cups.development] [RFE] STR #3265: CUPS does not offer hardware collate

Mike pittos at post.com
Mon Jul 20 10:17:06 PDT 2009


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Many printers are capable of collating in the printer hardware, however
CUPS PPD driver files default to software collating and do not give the
option of hardware collation.

The outcome of this is that printing multiple copies of a multi-page
document is often extremely slow, because CUPS effectively generates a new
print job for each copy of the document. This is very software/CPU
intensive and far from optimal.

Hardware collation would be a matter of adding a simple section to many of
the existing PPD driver files, and would allow many printers to receive the
spooled print job once and then to print all copies in hardware, with no
further software/CPU intervention.

Even if the CUPS providers are unwilling to set this by default, it should
be an option that is available from within the printer setup. I believe
that many laser printers and even some inkjet printers would have this
capability.

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3265
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