[cups.general] Ricoh 1022, PXLMONO and PDF's

[George Liu]

> except for the following - PDF files created by a scanner 
PDF created by scanner? Most likely scanner will build a PDF wrapper
around a raw TIFF image. It's more like a raw image file. 
On the other hand, the Ghostscript-buildin-pxlmono driver has a track
record of not able to handle image well. It will create very large
files. 
So, printing this kind of files will be slow. 

If you have a printer with optional Postscript, it might be faster (at
least it will not consume that much CPU power to convert (raster)PDF
into PCL-XL.



-----Original Message-----
From: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] On Behalf
Of Gil Freund
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:09 PM
To: cups at easysw.com
Subject: [cups.general] Ricoh 1022, PXLMONO and PDF's

Hi,

I am having a strange issue with a Ricoh 1022.

The Environment:
CUPS 1.2.7 with Samba 3.0.24 on Debian 4.0 Etch
Windows XP and 2003 Clients
Ricoh 1022 MFC using PXLmono generated PPD

All types of documents (Office, PDF, etc) seem to print without a hitch,
except for the following - PDF files created by a scanner (mainly by
Ricoh's scanning software). Those take about 5-7 minutes to start
printing, while the fomatic process seems to hog a lot of CPU.

Using the windows driver on a raw queue works fine (but not the
preferable solution).

Any pointers welcome

Gil


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