HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

110 Chapter6
Configuring Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers
Creating and Configuring Queues
other jobs with lower priorities that are already in the queue. The
spooler places jobs of equal priority in the queue in the order in which
they were submitted.
Figure 6-2, “priority-fifo Queue Feeding One Physical Printer,” illustrates
the priority-fifo scheduling method. The physical printer associated
with the queue is capable of printing all of the jobs. The priority of each
job is listed under the job and the jobs were submitted in the order of job
A first, followed by job B, job C, and so on. Job C has the highest priority
and HPDPS positions it at the head of the queue where it will be the first
job scheduled to print. Jobs B and D are equal in priority but are of
higher priority than jobs A, E, and F. HPDPS positions jobs B and D in
the queue in the order in which they were submitted. The same is true
for jobs A, E, and F; they are equal in priority and positioned in the
queue based on the order they were submitted. The spooler will schedule
the jobs in the order shown at the bottom of the figure.
Figure 6-2 priority-fifo Queue Feeding One Physical Printer
The default value for the job-priority job attribute is 50. Users can
specify a value less than 50 when they submit jobs or change the value to