Errors sending large numbers of documents toprinter

John Lussmyer jlussmyer at abclegal.com
Mon Mar 1 16:39:01 PST 2010


> What version of CUPS are you using?

Cups 1.3.7-8el5 on CentOS

> Are you printing directly to an actual printer or another print server?

Yes! :-)  Some printers are Socket protocol, one is another CUPS server.

> What protocol are you using to send the job from the local system?

>
> On Mar 1, 2010, at 4:23 PM, John Lussmyer wrote:
>
> > We have a nightly job that has to print large numbers of jobs to =
> multiple printers.  It appears that the jobs are being sent so fast that =
> the printer's spool space is filling up, and CUPS starts failing the =
> prints.
> > The error we are getting is "Print-Job client-error-not-possible".
> >=20
> > We are pretty sure it's the spool space filling, as a bunch of jobs =
> succeed, then a few fail, a few succeed, more fail, fewer succeed, =
> etc... until all are failing.  (The larger jobs start failing before the =
> smaller jobs fail.)
> >=20
> > We've been digging through the CUPS documentation and haven't found =
> any good solutions to the problem.  (In addition to just sending the =
> jobs too fast, there is the problem when a printer runs out of paper =
> while unattended.)
> >=20
> > So, what we are looking for is some way to configure CUPS so that:
> > a) Jobs do NOT get dropped/lost.
> > b) If the printer can't spool any more locally, CUPS spools them.
> >=20
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> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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