HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 6 109
Configuring Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers
Creating and Configuring Queues
physical printer PhyPrt1 can accept jobs A, B, and C, and physical
printer PhyPrt2 can accept jobs X, Y, and Z. Job A was the first job
received by the queue and job Z was the last. The spooler will schedule
the jobs in the order shown at the bottom of the figure.
Figure 6-1 FIFO Queue Feeding Two Physical Printers
If any job in a queue can be scheduled to more than one physical printer,
the order in which jobs print will vary based on the physical printer that
becomes available first. For example, if job B can be scheduled to either
PhyPrt1 or PhyPrt2, but job A can be scheduled only to PhyPrt1, job B
will print before job A if PhyPrt2 becomes available first. This is true
regardless of the scheduling method.
About the priority-fifo Scheduling Method
Spoolers using thepriority-fifo scheduling method use both the order
in which jobs were received by the queue and the priority of the job as
specified by the job-priority job attribute to schedule jobs. The larger
the value ofthe job-priority attribute, the higher the priority is for the
job. The spooler places jobs with higher priorities in the queue ahead of