Is there a way to speed up cloud print?

[daniel...@gmail.com]

We are using Ultradox for one of our customers to print documents right from the cloud to Google Cloud Print.

They are managing German journalists and have different printers to print out ID cards, car signs, invoices and other kind of documents.

They typically print out these documents for 500 members at once. So this task will print out like 2000 documents in total.

We have been using Java print service before and moved to cloud print recently. Unfortunately everything is getting really slow now.

I can see tons of print jobs in the queue once they fire up the batch job. It takes hours (!) to print out all the documents while it took minutes before. Is there a way to speed up the print queue execution?   

[Paolo Ferraris]

Hi Daniel,

how much time does it take before the first job starts printing? Is this interval the same when you print 1, 10 , 100 documents?

Which printer are you using?

Paolo

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[Robert Toscano]

Hi Daniel,

In addition to Paolo's questions, have you thought about condensing the documents for a particular user into just one print job (i.e. merge the PDFs from each of the documents)? This will result in one print job, and I'm curious if you see a speed up here. In any case, we'd like to speed up this process for you so I think the answers to Paolo's questions will help us get started here.

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[daniel...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the replies!

Merging the documents and sending a single big document to GCP is not feasible due to the clients workflow and the general system architecture. 

The time is almost constant - takes about 10 seconds per document (all documents are single page pdf documents), so we get a big queue of print jobs in cloud print and they are getting printed one after the other - but quite slowly. Of course it would speed up printing if all jobs for a single printer would go into a single large pdf, but this has to be done at GCP's end - and we are using printer configurations/different trays etc. so this is not as easy as one would guess.

Unfortunately we used Java Print API before switching to GCP, so they of course compare it to the blazing fast printing they used to get before.

I'm at the customers site on Thursday so I try to get some more numbers and printer details. They have a bunch of different legacy printers, no native cloud printers.

[Pablo Pico]

Hello,

I know this topic is old. Did you find any solution?
I developed a a small PHP web application which uses GCP API to print. I was relying on GCP to be able to print from the cloud to a local printer. However it looks like gcp cant send but one print job to the printer at once. Because of this the queue gets bigger and bigger (in gcp) and printing is so slow that it may take more than 8 minutes to print a job when the queue has several jobs. The printer is really fast (It is a thermal printer) I have tried different printers and i concluded that GCP does not send multiple jobs to Windows print queue. 

If i send one job it takes 18 seconds. But if i send 10 jobs (almost simultaneously) then the 10th job takes more than 8 minutes.

Any help is appreciated.