[cups.general] waiteof option either causes network busy or doesn't work (delay on job sending)

[Michael Sweet]

On May 14, 2010, at 5:56 AM, Paul wrote:
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> On both the 1.3 and 1.4 CUPS Documentation it states that when using the AppSocket (JetDirect) protocol, the waiteof option can be set to false to prevent the socket backend waiting for a print job to finish.
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> I tried this on 1.4 by setting DeviceURI socket://10.100.3.15?waiteof=false and it seemed to make no difference, jobs were still spaced around 5s apart.

This is the backchannel wait, which was finally removed for CUPS 1.4.4. Unfortunately, there isn't an option to disable it...

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair