[cups.general] Printing on Minolta 1300/1400W slow with usb backend

[Michael Sweet]

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> See this thread:
> 
> http://forums.freestandards.org/read.php?27,229
> 
> Two users report that when they print to their Minolta through the usb 
> backend of CUPS printing is slow, and they can solve the problem by 
> using a "file://dev/usblp0" URI.
> 
> At least one of them uses the CUPS coming with Ubuntu 6.06, which is an 
> early 1.2.x. Is this problem known? Is it perhaps already solved in CUPS 
> 1.2.7?

It's a bug in the Minolta USB hardware; basically, any "data ready"
status check will trigger a return of the 1284 device ID data from
these printers, so we specifically have to disable bidi on Minolta
printers.  The test in 1.2.7 was broken and has been fixed for the
upcoming 1.2.8 release.

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