142085 - Preemptive printing mode

Status: NEW

(Core :: Printing: Output, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Philipp Metzler]

Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417

When printing a lot of pages the printer only processes one print job for a
"long" time and other users have to wait. In multiuser / network environments
this can be very annoying. And the OS only allows to specify the priority of the
job but can't split the job. It should be built in every OS - but in the
meanwhile mozilla could be ahead of the pack by providing this cool new feature:
"Preemtion printing mode" where the whole job is split up in a number of jobs.
let the user choose:
o one printjob for every page
o split up in xx KB parts
o ...

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Confirming RFE...

Comment 2

[Philipp Metzler]

when configuring:

o "split up in xx KB parts" one page would be the granularity - so one page
can't be split up - just to be not misunderstood :-)

Comment 3

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Bulk moving P1-P5 un-milestoned bugs to future. 

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I can't see that being useful to the average user or even sub-average. (I don't even see it being the responsibility of the application)

Is this amenable to being provided by an extension?

Comment 5

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information

Comment 6

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information