[cups.general] cups on hp/ux 11.11 performance

[Helge Blischke]

henri wrote:
> I have seen this on OS X printing to Kyocera FS1010/FS1020/FS1030  with 
> the a generic post script driver.... still looking into this...  it is 
> especially pronounced when sending image files or complex post  script.
> 
> I had thought it was the printer....but it could be CUPS?
> 
> Conclusion : Further investigation required.
> 
> 
> On 17/11/2007, at 9:00 AM, cups at easysw.com wrote:
> 
>> Working with a client's install.  We have an issue where we have 48  
>> printers of varying types which has become very slow.  I mention 48  
>> printers become very slow.  In tracking down where the slowness is,  I 
>> believe it's in spooling the jobs.  lpstat -t for example can  take 
>> anywhere from 15 seconds to 30 seconds to complete.  Spooling  a 
>> single job takes up to 40 seconds.  It's traversing the entire  list 
>> of printer and I'm not sure why or what's causing the  slowness.  I 
>> did see a bug in GTK+ prior to 2.10.12 had a bug  listed which seemed 
>> related:
> 
> 
As for the Kyocera printers mentioned: you should use the respective
vendor's PPDs, *not* the ones with the foomatic stuff, as these printers
natively speak PostScript.

Helge


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