[cups.general] Delay before printing in more recent Linuxdistributions?

[Aaron E.]

I just went through all of this also, as far as my days of research I 
did not find a resolution except to update to cups version 1.4.4 or 
above.. it seems that 1.4.3 and below to 1.3 had this issue.. 1.2 did 
not have the issue..

My issue was a 5 second pause between print jobs..

You can try the cups options of socket://ipaddress:9100?waitof=(forget 
option but I think it was true or false) ... From my research I think 
that even though this option is in the documentation it never worked 
properly.. It is in the cups documentation if you decide to try it..

On 11/29/2010 02:29 PM, Nick Rahl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There seems to be a delay when printing with CUPS in more recent Linux
> distributions, that was not present in older versions. For example, in
> Ubuntu 8.04, when a file was added to the print cue, it printed
> immediately if the printer was ready. In 10.04, there's a 10-15 second
> delay between the start of the job, and when the printer actually starts
> printing. From searching the Internet exhaustively, I've found people
> using other Linux distros reporting a similar problem, but no solutions
> offered.
>
> The problem is present with CUPS 1.4.3 (the Ubuntu 10.04 default), and
> also in 1.4.5 when I compiled from source. The same document prints
> immediately from an Ubuntu 8.04 system or from Windows.
>
> I was hoping someone might be able to shed some light on the problem. Is
> it a CUPS issue, or a change to Linux in general? Are the developers
> aware this issue exists? Are there any workarounds?
>
> I'm going to try attaching (I don't know if the list accepts
> attachments) a log of what happens when I print a one page document.
>
> You can see that there's a 4 second wait just before
> "prtGeneralCurrentLocalization type is 0, expected 2!". I'm not sure
> what that message means.
>
> It also does:
>
> I [28/Nov/2010:14:44:19 -0500] [Job 3071] Printing page 1, 0% complete...
> D [28/Nov/2010:14:44:19 -0500] Discarding unused job-progress event...
> D [28/Nov/2010:14:44:19 -0500] Discarding unused printer-state-changed
> event...
> I [28/Nov/2010:14:44:19 -0500] [Job 3071] Printing page 1, 1% complete...
> I [28/Nov/2010:14:44:19 -0500] [Job 3071] Printing page 1, 2% complete...
> I [28/Nov/2010:14:44:19 -0500] [Job 3071] Printing page 1, 3% complete...
>
> Over and over again, for several seconds, and then goes on to:
>
> D [28/Nov/2010:14:44:26 -0500] [Job 3071] Wrote 8192 bytes of print data...
> D [28/Nov/2010:14:44:26 -0500] [Job 3071] Read 8192 bytes of print data...
>
> Over and over again, for several more seconds until it finally gets to:
>
> I [28/Nov/2010:14:44:29 -0500] [Job 3071] Print file sent, waiting for
> printer to finish...
>
> At which point the document actually prints. In this example it takes a
> full 10 seconds before the printer starts printing.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>