printing extreme slow

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Sat Aug 27 13:30:58 PDT 2005


Axel Braun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using a HP Color-laserjet 2550 (Postscript printer) with Cups 1.1.23
> (SUSE 9.3), but figured out that the printing is extremely slow. 
> 
> The printer is attached to /dev/lp0, and the parallel port uses interrupt 7.
> For a 7MB Job it takes about 5 minutes before the page comes out (on a
> Laserjet 5L using ghostscript it starts basically immediately).
> 
> Upgrading the printer to 192 MB RAM did not solve the problem.
> 
> Is this a Cups issue? Any ideas what I can do?

More than likely it is a parallel port issue - check your BIOS
settings (ECP mode, DMA support?), and verify that the Linux
driver is configured the same.

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