HostServe Print Clustering
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Fundamentals
of Print Load Balancing, cont. from last week
Print
Clustering
Print-Clustering often refers to printing
large print jobs across several printers.
Large print jobs come in two basic varieties:
- A multitude of jobs all
strung together
- A single job requiring
a large number of copies.
Printing portions of these
large jobs on separate printers requires a complex
controller. Not only must it decide what to print
on each printer, but also the printers may have other
inputs and can be busy. So the algorithms for allocating
the print load over the printers needs to be very
flexible.
- Equal Split
- The Chunker
- The Document Printers
The simplest of the three
solutions is the equal split algorithm.
This is where a job is split into an equal number
of pages to print on several printers.
The Chunker,
which is the most common, is where a certain number
of pages are printed on each printer as they become
available. This is often used in conjunction with
a spooler, or point of control device to schedule
printing during the day. For example, a large print
job of a million pages could be broken up into groups
of 50,000 pages per chunk. These chunks are then printed
on the available printers and reassembled for submission
to an inserter or other finishing device.
The Document Printers
solution is where large jobs are broken up into smaller
segments but only on document boundaries. Often the
document’s sequence is retained in a database for
reprinting should some of the pages get damaged. The
documents can be broken up into either equal parts
or in Chunks.
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available with APWI’s HostServe.
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