[cups.general] Printing VERY slow

[Michael Sweet]

James Cammarata wrote:
> Hi all, we're using cups here at my company to print to remote Jet
> Directs.  The server is at our central office here, obviously the
> JetDirects and printers are at each remote location.  These remote
> locations are serviced by WAN links ranging from 128Kbps to 512Kbps.
> 
> The problem is this: printing is like molasses.  Before we moved to our
> new server (Mandrake 10 running on an IBM x345) we were running this
> application on a Sun 450, and there were no problems with printing. 
> Cups was not used on the 450.  
> 
> The application redirects it's output to a script using STDOUT, and the
> scripts call either lp or a2ps to do the formating/printing.
> 
> All methods of doing the printing are slow, and it doesn't matter
> whether I use the socket, lp, or IPP protocols to communicate with the
> JetDirect, all are slow: about 1 page per minute.
> 
> Our printers include old HP 6P's, 13xx's, 22xx's, 23xx's, 4200's, etc. 
> Essentially 85% HP laserjets.
> 
> I have tried using both the CUPS default laserjet driver and hpijs.

Is there a reason why you haven't used the PostScript mode of these
printers (all but the 6P supports PostScript as a standard feature)

You can use the Windows 2000 PPD files that come with the printer
with CUPS, and then you won't be sending PCL graphics over your
WAN links...

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