printing extreme slow

[Axel Braun]

Michael Sweet wrote:

>> 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).

> 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.

Yep, the parallel port was in SPP and not in ECP mode. That solved it

Thanks
Axel