cups printing slow - page by page

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 05:56:59 -0700
Collins Richey <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:

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< When a file consists of multiple pages, cups often prints them as
< though each page were a file by itself - long pause between pages.  On
< other distros (SUSE 9.0, for example), the transition from one page to
< the next is at top speed. 
> 
> Currently on my system:
> 
> cups-1.1.20          

Thanks for the suggestions, however this now appears to be a sample of Murphy's Law of Instrumentation: the instrumented system will not fail!!!

The behavior has now disappeared - printing from Konqueror, MozillaFirebird, OpenOffice, and 'cat xxx | lpr.'  Multi-page documents print at normal speed, and it doesn't matter whether it's graphics stuff or plain text, color or greyscale.

All I can say is WTF!!!

OTOH, I just upgraded cups a few days ago to the .20 release, so ... I've known cups to be quite erratic from one release to the next.  For a time (a year ago or more), alternate cups releases would not even work with my printers.

Often when you raise your hand in class to ask the teacher a question you know the answer before she gets to you <g>

Serendipity rules!


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