Slow printing on RHL 9

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> I'm conducting an experiment with a willing subject at work. I've
> installed RHL 9 and he's using it in his day to day activity. One of his
> activities involves logging onto an online 3PL site (Third Party
> Logistics) and printing a 2 page bar coded shipping document.
> RHL 9 is configured to use CUPS and the printer is a networked JetDirect
> printer (HP 2200).
> When he prints the document, it takes nearly 5 minutes for both pages to
> finally finish printing. Contrast this to the less than 1 minute it
> takes for the document to print via Windows.
> Now, if he logs into a remote X session on our RHL 7 server and prints
> from there, it prints fast, just like it does from Windows.
> Both the RHL 7 server and the RHL 9 desktop are running CUPS.
> The desktop machine is an AMD K6-2 500 MHz with 256MB RAM, the server is
> a 1GHz Intel.
> Any ideas on what I can try to speed up the printing?

I'm using RH9 on my desktop at work, and printing is always quite snappy
to the JetDirect printers here.
I dont' suppose that barcode doc is available for me to try?

I'd be curious on what is taking so long.  Is it his box that is taking
forever to generate the postscript?  Or to send the file over the network
to the printer, or for the printer to process & print it?

Also, have you tried printing to a PS file, and then using lpr to send it
to the printer?

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