[cups.general] RIP once, print many

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:45:25 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:

> I have two printers, a Laserjet 5Si and a Laserjet 8000. They are
> essentially the same (same toner, lots of identical parts), but the
> 8000 is a later model. For me the big difference between the two is
> "RIP once, print many," which only the 8000 can do. "RIP once, print
> many" means that when you ask the printer to print multiple collated
> copies it images the entire print job once, saves the image in the
> printer's memory, and reprints the remaining copies from the image in
> memory. The result is that the first copy may print a bit slow,
> especially if it is a complex document, but the remaining copies print
> at the rated speed of the printer because the printer does not have to
> re-image the pages.
> 
> My problem is that this works fine from all applications in Windows,
> but from Adobe Reader in Linux CUPS holds the print job and re-images
> it for each subsequent copy. 
> 
> In Adobe Reader I can specify an lpr command, but I can't figure out
> the syntax to make it enable RIP once, print many.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

Really, I need help here. Having to re-image each copy is killing me.

Can anyone help? Any suggestions at all!