When we used cups on our Linux server I had to go directly to the IP address of the printer circumnavigating the Windows print server. Going through the print server created too many problems, especially for print jobs that we had imbedded pcl coding.
Jerry Banker -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 1:21 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] CUPS printing and sequence of jobs it's a Canon Imagerunner copier/printer with it's own "pc" acting as a server. I'm not really sure what OS it's running, I don't think it's windows. I'm submitting lpd protocol to it, directly to it's IP I switched our side so that cups sends to a Windows PC running RPM lpd server, and RPM then sends the raw data to a windows network printer (same copier/server) except it's getting it's jobs through the networks windows printer server, and the jobs print as expected. So, it's definitely in the Canons PC's lpd server specifically. This all sounds great..and solved, EXCEPT, we have found another little issue with cups, it seems when the lpd server is busy, cups triggers the printer queue to disable (ErrorPolicy stop-printer), which is extremely annoying to have to keep reenabling the queue when you send a flurry of jobs. So we changed it so the ErrorPolicy retry-job instead, now it doesn't take the queue offline, instead now it just doesn't send a job to the server, but still deletes it from it's queue. So....Until I can get this lost job issue solved, looks like I have choices: 1. Look into changing from lpd protocol (port 515) to Ipp protocol (port 9100) (next attempt) 2. See if the server's admin can set something so the lpd server does FIFO 3. have fun sorting printed jobs back into their correct order! > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- > boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 1:50 PM > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] CUPS printing and sequence of jobs > > Is this with a standalone hardware printer server, or a PC acting as a > printer server? If the latter, with what software on the PC? > > Our Print Wizard software for Windows can act as a printer server. We > have > *some* capabilities for job sequencing, and we could explore more > options > with you if this is critical. > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, George Gallen wrote: > > > the debug info shows they were sent to the printer in the numerical > unix job# order. > > I disabled the printer, sent the jobs again, and the unix job# order > was the same > > as the order sent, I renabled the printer and when the jobs > printed they were > > in random order, according to the cups log, they were sent in the > correct order. > > > > So it looks like it's the receiving print server that is sending them > in random > > order to the printer, of course the admin for that server swears > it does FIFO... > > > > Thanks for the debug tip... > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- > > > boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Romanow > > > Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 12:51 PM > > > To: U2 Users List > > > Subject: Re: [U2] CUPS printing and sequence of jobs > > > > > > Maybe turn the logging up a notch and verify the order they are > being > > > submitted? It might not be considered "submitted" until it > finishes > > > spooling, where a large job can be surpassed by smaller jobs. We > would > > > not really want it to "block" on large print jobs. Take for > instance > > > you start spooling an invoice run that may take 5-6 minutes to > spool, > > > you do you not want to process any other jobs while this thing is > > > transferring to the queue? > > > _______________________________________________ > > > U2-Users mailing list > > > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > > > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > _______________________________________________ > > U2-Users mailing list > > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > > > > > Regards, > ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. > > personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com > company e-mail: r...@anzio.com > voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) > fax: (US) 503-624-0760 > web: http://www.anzio.com > street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. > 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 > Portland, OR 97223 USA > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
