Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:32:46 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: David Powers <dnpowers@swbell.net> Cc: doug.fee@unisys.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LPR spool size limit Message-ID: <3CB4E7BE.5060702@potentialtech.com> References: <016b01c1e0f3$59e2b8f0$0401a8c0@daveabit>
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David Powers wrote: > What kind of setup are you using, I happen to know that some of the newer HP > jet direct interfaces have trouble with large print jobs. I've had this > problem with any of the EIO based print servers they ship. Well, the one place has a dozen or so laser printers set up through Intel network "print servers" (as they're called) and everything is run off a FreeBSD machine that uses Samba to share the queues to various Windows machines. We've never had problems with print jobs. Some of them get pretty big, but I don't think we've ever gotten over 500 pages in a single print job. Another client has a Phaser color laser printer, and on certain days of the week (like, the day before a client arrives) the designers are printing scores of photo-quality images to this thing (it runs through a FreeBSD print server as well) and occasionally they'll fill up the /var partition when the queue fills up with dozens of multi-megabyte print jobs. I've recommended they buy a cheap 30G ATA drive so that I mount /var there where there'll be plenty of space, but they'd rather "just be careful". Now that they know what causes the problem, it happens less. Other than that, I don't know of any of my clients who are printing anything even remotely as large as what Doug's describing. -Bill > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bill Moran > doug.fee@unisys.com wrote: > >>Hi All, >> >>Does anyone know of a way to print large (>500 pages) documents? For >>example, when I spooled a 603 page document lpr choked. It truncated >>the file. I tried setting the mx=0 option in the printcap file but to >>no avail. Can LPR even print large documents? If not, does anyone have >>any alternatives? >> > > How large is your spool file? The only time I've seen lpd choke on a > file is when the file filled up the partition. How much space do you > have available in /var/spool? > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technology > http://www.potentialtech.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.344 / Virus Database: 191 - Release Date: 4/2/2002 > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.344 / Virus Database: 191 - Release Date: 4/2/2002 > > > > > -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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