Printer help!

Hi, here is my problem. I have a printer daemon that takes print jobs and sticks them in a queue, but when I print certain files(specifically large pdf files)it prints the first few pages, and then lpq shows that the job stalled. What I believe is happening is that the printer gets as much data as it can hold, prints it and never tells the daemon that it is ready for more of the job. Does anyone know of an easy way to breakup the users job on the backend so that it prints the whole job? Such as breaking the ps file into multiple ones... or someother solution besides buy more memory. Thanks

For laser printers, this is impossible. They have to get all data for a full page into their ram before they start printing. For ink jet, it is not necessary because linux takes care of the "notification" you are mentioning.

The problem probably is somewhere else. Maybe your /var partition is full? A full page in 600x600dpi can take up several 100 MBs.

Another problem could be the printer driver. Which filter package and driver are you using with which printer?