A delay of 6-7 minutes between submission and printing of a job..

[Emre Sururi]

> Emre Sururi wrote:
>
> > When I send a document to the network printer in our office, it takes
> > about 4-7 minutes before the document actually gets printed.
> >
> > The connection to the printer is through "https", where I also supply my
> > account information. I've installed it using the CUPS web interface and
> > used both existing PPD driver and supplied driver but it didn't made any
> > difference. I thought it was due to printer but I can print from WinXP
> > with no trouble at all, and all the other people using CUPS also have no
> > problem in immediately printing...

> > D [25/Mar/2009:11:31:05 +0100] [Job 267] Connected to 131.180.4.61:443 (IPv4)...
> > D [25/Mar/2009:11:31:05 +0100] [Job 267] Getting supported attributes...
> > D [25/Mar/2009:11:35:24 +0100] [Job 267] Getting supported attributes...
> > D [25/Mar/2009:11:35:24 +0100] [Job 267] document-format-supported (1 values)
> > D [25/Mar/2009:11:35:24 +0100] [Job 267] printer-uri =
> > "https://srv525.tudelft.net:443/printers/3mE-8D-0-2/.printer"
> > D [25/Mar/2009:11:35:24 +0100] [Job 267] requesting-user-name = "root"
> > D [25/Mar/2009:11:35:24 +0100] [Job 267] job-name = "2008 - Hart - Phys Rev
> > B preprint - Generating Derivative Structures.pdf"
> > N [25/Mar/2009:11:37:34 +0100] [Job 267] Print file accepted - job ID 94.

> From your log, it seems that establishing the connection to the printer or
> getting the attributes from the printer takes that long time. I'd suggest to trace the communication with the real printer.

Thank you very much for the suggestion, I'll be re-checking the firewall & connection related points. But what is frustrating is at the end the document gets printed and I'm clueless about it. I could understand if there was no output at all, but a delayed output? Thank you again & best wishes..