printing sequence of jobs

[Ben jarnutowski]

Is there any way for the print server to be forced to
print jobs in the sequence/order they are sent.

The printers are running on the lan, but being used by
only one system.

currently, when we send several hundred jobs of the same
type, they are printing out of sequence... The ducuments
have a sequential number that must stay in order they are
being sent.

Thanks

 

[Paul Baker [MVP, Windows - SDK]]

Actually, I thought that jobs *are* generally processed in the order they
were sent.

I cannot think of many things that can affect it. Look in the Advanced page
of the printer properties in each client. There is Priority and spool
settings.

If jobs are sent close together, the client could appear to have sent it
before the server acknowledges it.

Paul

 

[Christoph Lindemann]

In W2K / XP I think you can use the JOB_INFO_3 structure and SetJob API to
link together jobs, although I have not tried this myself.

/christoph

 

[Guest]

We do a lot of matched mailing, and when we used Win98 and Novell, never had
this issue...

If I start on page 1 of a report, and tell Access to print from pages 1 to
100, the job is built on printing 100 pages, that gets hugh, and slows down
the whole system.

So the workaround is to open a report at a specific page/record, print it,
close it, increment the counter, open it at the next page/record, etc... this
works really fast, but the jobs are printing out of sequence, and not all the
time. Typically, the job size for each report printed individually is no more
than 2K, so that eliminates a ram issue i'd think, and since the jobs are
printing so quickly, there's no real big ram usage in the printer, that's why
I'm looking for other things that can cause this problem... The only other
thing I can comment on is that there are several hundred jobs in the queue
all the time...

Is there any way to look into the queue properties or somewhere, and just
say "print the jobs as they are received"?

Thanks

 

[Paul Baker [MVP, Windows - SDK]]

What I'm saying is that it does print in the order the jobs are received.

Paul

 

[talk2aashish]

Hi All,

My Problem relates to Printing Sequence.

We have developed a Program which Auto prints the HTML Files in a
batch.
The Problem is when the HTML Files are printed, they are not printed in
the exact sequence.
The Program fires the Printout in exact sequence but the results when
physical papers are printed differ. The physical printouts are not in
exact sequence.

The Printer Window also shows documents in jumbled sequence.

Is there any suggested workaround.

Thanks and Regards

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Change the Advanced printer settings to start printing after the last page
has spooled and print spooled documents first

Or disable the spooler file pool
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815913/en-us
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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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