[CLUE-Tech] Compensating for insufficient printer memory

[Matt Gushee]

Hi, all--

I recently bought a used HP LaserJet 5L, which works fine. Except that
it only has 1MB of memory, so many large documents just won't print.
I'd like to buy more memory for it, but unfortunately it requires a
credit-card type memory module, which seems to be very hard to come by.
Nobody's got it locally; I could buy it direct from HP, but they charge
about $370 for 4 megs [GAG, SPLUTTER, COUGH!]. It's been suggested that
I try eBay, and I may end up doing that, but ... I dunno, for whatever
reason I really dislike buying anything online. Or maybe I should just
buy a different printer.

Anyway, whatever I end up doing about the hardware, for at least the
next couple of weeks or so I'm stuck with this, and I have a lot of
stuff to print. So my question is:

  Is there a way to configure the spooler to split up large jobs into
  chunks that the printer can handle? I'm using CUPS, and its manual
  doesn't seem to address this issue; I could switch to LPR or LPRng
  if absolutely necessary.

-- 
Matt Gushee                 When a nation follows the Way,
Englewood, Colorado, USA    Horses bear manure through
mgushee at havenrock.com           its fields;
http://www.havenrock.com/   When a nation ignores the Way,
                            Horses bear soldiers through
                                its streets.
                                
                            --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)