Re: Order of the jobs in a printer queue
From: Joseph M. Newcomer (newcomer_at_flounder.com)
Date: 04/05/04
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 15:46:39 -0400
I'm not claiming to be an expert in the print spooler, but I don't believe you have much
control over this. The print spooler ultimately decides what is going out, and when. So
you are talking about the "physical device" when in fact there are several more layers of
software between you and the printer; in a network it can be your local spooler and the
remote spooler. Jobs might even be dequeued in the order their randomly-generated
temporary file names are found in the spooler queue. While I find the behavior you
describe a bit unusual, it doesn't surprise me that print job order is not maintained.
It may be possible to control the order, but I wouldn't set any high expectations that
this is going to be possible.
I've seen this in a lot of print spoolers in a lot of operating systems over the years,
and Windows does not strike me as being dissimilar in any way from the systems I've used.
You might be able to play games with priorities or something like that, but as I say,
don't set your hopes too high on this.
joe
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:22:22 +0200, "Raymond BIANCONE"
<raymond.biancone@NO_SPAMsipe-informatique.com> wrote:
>We have developped a CAD application with Visual C++ version 6 and MFC. We
>need to print drawings page by page (A4 format). It is necessary for us to
>print the drawings as one job by page. We are observing on some printers
>that the order in which we send the pages are not respected in the physical
>output. So we are wondering if it is possible to manage the sorting of the
>jobs through the programmatic tools founded in the MFC or if it is possible
>to externally set configurations parameters through the properties of the
>printer.
>The program is running under Windows 2000 professional edition and the
>printer is accessed through a network on a Windows NT Server.
>
>Thank's for a help.
>
>Raymond.
>
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