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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: Two printers on one print server
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.182011.10650@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:20:11 GMT
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- Richard Deal writes
- > In article <1992Jul23.141026.18099@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- brenner@ucunix.san.uc.edu (David L. Brenner) writes:
- > >I have an IPC and want to use it as a print server. I have two
- > >SPARCPrinters and want to set them up so that if one printer is busy the
- > >other one will get the new print jobs.
- > >
- > >Has anyone done this? If so, please let me know how you did it.
- > >
- > I would be very interested in this also please email me also or post. I have
- > several printers all HP lasers (different models though) that are shared with
- > PC-NFS (uses regular UNIX remote printing). Most of the printers are
- actually
- > on SPARC's. We have one heavy user who often prints several thousand pages
- > to an HPIIIsi. when this is going on is there any easy way to spool other
- > print requests to another printer rather than Queing them up.
- > thanks in advance.
- >
-
- Define a new print queue called generic.
- Run a script that checks the status of your printers. When it finds one that's
- free, or has only a small job, it runs submits the job to the new printer, and
- deletes it from the generic printer. It's a kludge and a hack, but you should
- be able to do it with a hundred lines of perl or awk.
-
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