[cups.general] Shorten delay between print request and actual printing

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 16 February 2006 10:25, Leon Goldman wrote:
>Is there a way to shorten the delay that is occuring from when I
> request something be printed in an application and when the actual
> printing begins? Right now it takes up to 2 minutes which, when I am
> sitting there, seems like a lifetime. This was not the case before
> for me.
>
This delay is an artifact of the modern GDI printer.  Even raw text has 
to be converted to gfx image format that can then be fed thru 
ghostscript in order to convert it into a rasterized gfx image of the 
original text.  AFAIK, the only way around that is to get a printer 
that understands postscript, but then the lag is offloaded to the 
printer, and you are still waiting for the output while the file is 
being rendered.

>Currently using CUPS 1.1.23 under Mandriva 2006 Christmas edition, KDE
> 3.5.1. Printer is an HP 9800 connected by USB to my localhost. It
> prints fine, but just there is this delay. Error_log does not appear
> to show any error. I cannot find a setting within the configuration
> file that would affect this. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thank you.
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