Slow printing on RHL 9

[Tim Wunder]

On 8/29/2003 4:26 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:

> 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?
> 

Unfortunately, no.

> I'd be curious on what is taking so long.  Is it his box that is taking
> forever to generate the postscript?

That's what I'm thinking. The last page contains the bar code, and that 
takes forever. The first page comes out fairly quickly.

>...  Or to send the file over the network
> to the printer, or for the printer to process & print it?
> 

Well, the server and the Windows boxen all deal with the same network 
and printer and don't have the problem.

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

No, but that's a good idea. I'll try that, but it's close to end of day 
here (and month end...), so I'll probly not get to it 'til Tuesday.

Thanks.
Tim