Re: Interruptable Printing?

[Franck Masson <franck.masson@SQRIBE.COM>]

You have different solution :
1) use the spooler of your nt box
keep the lis file ouput and then print it
normally the spooler are able to manage this.

2) If you still have a problem ( lack of printer memory)
few option depending of your kind of printer.
If it is a Postcript, you can write a sqr program that read the lis file
and split it in 100pages out we have already done this.
For PCL printer you can do in the same i think but we have no
experience.

Franck,


David A. Beck wrote:
>
> Good Afternoon Everyone,
>
> I have an interesting problem that I have my suspicions about, but I wanted to bounce it off our great and oh-so-knowledgeable user group.  This problem happens during the printing of a very large report.  We have a Job Work Status report that runs from Projects in PeopleSoft.  Our Proj Resource table has 5million+ rows in it which really slows this report down.  The report can be as long as 2000+ pages when it has completed running (I don't know why we have to run this beast, I just know that we have to do it).
>
> THE PROBLEM ->  When the report is running and the output is directed at LPT1, it will begin printing as normal.  If however, another user sends a document to the same printer the following problems happen:
>
> 1.  The document will print in the middle of my report.
> 2.  The formatting of my report will be lost (font, orientation, etc...) when the report completes its printing after the interruption.
>
> I have a couple of theories (guesses?), but no solutions.
>
> 1.  The processing is so slow that some sort of timeout is occurring in the queue and other documents are able to get in.  Then when the report has something to print the original formatting specifications have been lost.
> 2.  That the printer might need more memory?
> 3.  Maybe there is some command that I can't find in SQR that allows the printer to be shared?
> 4.  Could this be a network thing?
>
> Any expertise and help would be greatly appreciated.  Has anyone ever encountered this before?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Dave
>
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