priority print queues

[Luis Arriaga]

Hi Everybody!!!
I have a number of HP printers network connected to our production L class server running HPUX 11.0. I use JetAdmin to administer them.

I've recently added a remote printer. It's a Xerox docutech printer which is attached to a Sun Sparcstation. When printing to this remote printer, jobs no longer run through the queue sequentially. The printer tries to print the small jobs first regardless of what order they were sent in.

All jobs are been set with the same priority, I required to print in Xerox in the same order that I am sending in the HP machine, but the jobs are been printed in different order.

I suspect this can only be address on the Sun/Xerox side, but just wondered if there's anything I can do from the HP side to force the print order? I tried changing the "nowait" to "wait" for the rlpdaemon entry in inetd.conf, but it didn't help.

I send a hundred (sometimes thousands) of jobs, so I don??t know how to use jobs priority in this case.

Any suggestions??

[Bill Hassell]

The print queues are sent to a remote server as first in, first out which is also in printjob number order. There isn't anything you can do to improve this order on the print server.

However, if the Docutech printer has a parallel port, you might look at adding a JetDirect external adapter and printing both from the HP and Solaris using JetDirect software. The JetDirect card will accept only one job at a time.