diff --git a/services/clsi/app/js/CompileManager.js b/services/clsi/app/js/CompileManager.js
index 69aa1114db..3bd121fbce 100644
--- a/services/clsi/app/js/CompileManager.js
+++ b/services/clsi/app/js/CompileManager.js
@@ -131,6 +131,10 @@ function doCompile(request, callback) {
         // override default texlive openout_any environment variable
         env.openout_any = Settings.texliveOpenoutAny
       }
+      if (Settings.texliveMaxPrintLine && Settings.texliveMaxPrintLine !== '') {
+        // override default texlive max_print_line environment variable
+        env.max_print_line = Settings.texliveMaxPrintLine
+      }
       // only run chktex on LaTeX files (not knitr .Rtex files or any others)
       const isLaTeXFile =
         request.rootResourcePath != null
diff --git a/services/clsi/config/settings.defaults.js b/services/clsi/config/settings.defaults.js
index cd22f7bed4..a31e37dc3a 100644
--- a/services/clsi/config/settings.defaults.js
+++ b/services/clsi/config/settings.defaults.js
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ module.exports = {
   filestoreDomainOveride: process.env.FILESTORE_DOMAIN_OVERRIDE,
   texliveImageNameOveride: process.env.TEX_LIVE_IMAGE_NAME_OVERRIDE,
   texliveOpenoutAny: process.env.TEXLIVE_OPENOUT_ANY,
+  texliveMaxPrintLine: process.env.TEXLIVE_MAX_PRINT_LINE,
   sentry: {
     dsn: process.env.SENTRY_DSN,
   },