Slow printing on RHL 9

[Mike Reinehr]

I couldn't find any information on the HP website, so first question is, is 
your HP2200 a postscript capable printer, or is it an HP PCL only printer?

If your HP2200 is post script capable, then your print driver should, 
essentially, just be passing the printfile raw to the printer -- and should 
go very fast.

Otherwise, the postscript has to first be translated into HP PCL which would 
go much more slowly.

If you do have a postscript capable printer, but the wrong CUPS driver, it's 
possible that the postscript is being converted to HP PCL unnecessarily.

cmr

On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:33 pm, you wrote:
>
> OK... got back to this. Printing to a file goes quickly, using lpr to
> print it to the printer from the local desktop machine, takes a LONG time.
>
> The file is, um, large:
> $ ll *.ps
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tpw  adm   27365874 Sep  2 16:05 2003245149827.ps
>
>
> For grins, I scp'd the .ps file to my Samba shared Home directory,
> opened it with Windows' GhostScript and printed it to the same printer.
> It went very quickly. :-(
>
> The server creates a similar large file, although the example I have is
> somewhat smaller:
> # ll *.ps
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ddt  ddt   20719300 Sep  2 16:25 2003245149879.ps
>
> So, I guess what I've determined is that the problem is with the RHL9
> PC. I don''t know if it's CUPS, the driver, ghostscript, or what. Any
> more ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
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