10.5 print server whoes

I work as a server and ACMT engineer and installed some Mac Mini's with OS X server at different locations. These are used for filesharing, time machine backup and for print serving. Now, 2 of our clients are experiencing problems with their print servers, the only thing the've got in common, is that there are multiple printers connected to their server and that they got an high volume of print jobs during a given day. The problems they experiencing are that the queu get stuck and no print jobs are getting printed. As far i know this only happens when more printers and printer queu are connected and used on OS X server. All printers are set up as IPP and LPR with bonjour.
Anybody got a solution?

I have been experiencing similar sorts of problems.
I temporarily solved my problem of slow printing this morning by turning off the firewall on the Mac OSX 10.5 server. After turning off the firewall, printing from clients worked almost instantaneously. Turning the firewall back on causes the problems to recur. The firewall on the server is normally set to allow all traffic for the local network, but block most ports for the "any" network definition.
I expect that I have to allow any traffic for the local link address, or some such work around to fix the problem permanently. It does not seem wise to run a server with no firewall rules.
The other thing I did to help out printing stability earlier was to connect to the URL http://127.0.0.1:631 on the print server (Cups web management) and set the Error Policy option for print queues to abort-job rather than stop-printer.

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