Slow printing on RHL 9 (Solved! sort of...)

[Tim Wunder]

rather, I worked around the problem...
I set up a RAW, Networked CUPS (IPP) printer connected to my server, 
rather than the Networked JetDirect printer and now it prints fast. Must 
be the K6-2 processor is overmatched for running a PostScript CUPS 
printqueue...<shrug>

Thanks,
Tim

On 9/2/2003 4:42 PM, someone claiming to be Mike Reinehr wrote:

> 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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