Something like waitprinter available for shared printers?

[Gerd v. Egidy]

Hi,

I have a dedicated printserver running cups (version is cups-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4, this is a Redhat/Centos server). All printers are connected to this server and defined there. My workstations (Fedora 11, cups-1.4.2-20.fc11) don't have local printers defined but use the printers shared by the printserver.

When I submit several printjobs on a workstations, the jobs are queued by cups on the workstation. Cups on the workstation sends one job when the printserver tells the printer is ready. Cups on the workstation then waits until the printer is ready again before it submits the next job.

Is there a way to tell the cups on the workstations to instantly send all jobs to the printserver, regardless of the state the printer currently is in?

I have seen that there is the waitprinter option available for ipp printers. Is something similar available for the communication between two cups systems?

Kind regards,

Gerd