[cups.general] Slow printing

[pipitas]

Tredeau, Peter wrote:

>  I am serving out 3 printers through Samba to  about 20 windows XP
> machines.  I use CUPS to manage the
> 
> Printers, and 2 of the printers are fine.  I have a HP laserjet 5SiMX
> that is very slow.

Could you be more specific, please?

Or do you want to hear "ideas" like: "your 5SiMX may be aging" or
"your other 2 printers may be of a different type", or some such
stupid thing?

Please tell us:

* what types/models are the "other 2" printers?
* what "printer drivers" are you using for each of these 
  printers?
* do your Windows clients download the drivers from a Samba
  print$ share?
* do they download PostScript drivers (with CUPS rasterizing this
  PS to a non-PS format suitable for the printers)?
* or do they download "native Windows" drivers?
* or do your Win clients use client-side drivers?

>  Any ideas ?

Depends on the info you may provide.

Cheers,
Kurt