Job size limit

[Robert A Kirkpatrick]

Hi, I have a network printer that is unable to printer a 9MG job. I have checked the printer configuration and set-up procedure and there appears to be no file limit. Is there a Unix setting that limits printer file sizes? I know the printer works as other jobs are printing OK.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
Is any data sent to the printer or is the job rejected before any data is sent ?
Is ther any error messages on the printer (perhaps about "not enough memory").

As far as I know, there is no HP-UX print job limits, I have sometimes printed bigger files then 9MB.

[Bruno Vidal]

Hi,
Don't you have any file system full. Before sending any data to printer, the spooler is copying data to /var/spool/lp/request/printer_queue

As far i know, there is no file size limit in the spooler (only number of simultaneous jobs).

Cheers.

[Rajesh G. Ghone]

Hi,
As far I know there is no size limitation in Spooler,do you have any other jobs in queue??what is the priroty of your print job ??check this out i think you should be able to print,if you have much more jobs in queue try to kill other jobs except your job & check.

Regards,
Rajesh G.

[Pete Randall]

Robert,

I strongly suspect that you're filling up /var/spool. Check before, during and after the print request with "bdf /var".


Pete

[Chris Wilshaw]

It's possible that it's a connection timeout on the printer.

Check the Idle Timeout value on the printer. I believe that this defaults to 90 seconds, after which time, the connection may drop.

Changing this to 0 should prevent the connection from timing out.

[Martin Robinson · Accepted solution]

I work with Robert, the original poster, and wuold like to add some details.

We have 500MB in var, so it's not a problem. The print job is happily sitting in the print queue but there is no lp process associated with it. Printing other jobs to this queue causes them to be printed, with the associated lp process appearing then terminating.

It just seems to ignore the print job, as if it had a prority lower than the fence priority (which it doesn't).

There are no errors in /var/adm/lp/log - there is a line which looks like job started, but no errors or job finished line, and no lp/interface process. So that's why we are asking about job size limits.

The printer timeout looked promising, but surely that means there should be an lp process for up to 90 seconds?