[cups.general] Delay before printing in more recent Linux distributions?

[Michael Sweet]

On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Nick Rahl wrote:
> On 12/02/2010 07:00 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> D'oh!  You're right of course.
>> 
>> Nick, change that line to read:
>> 
>>     *cupsSNMPSupplies: False
>> 
>> Sorry about the mixup...
>> 
> Thanks! The 4 second delay in the log is gone now. I'm still not sure 
> why it still takes 9 seconds to start printing though.
> 
> The file is cued at:
> D [02/Dec/2010:20:08:54 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost (Domain)
> 
> And actually prints at:
> I [02/Dec/2010:20:09:03 -0500] [Job 3199] Print file sent, waiting for 
> printer to finish...
> 
> It seems to be transferring data during that time... Is 9 seconds 
> considered "normal" for data transfer? (1 Page, 70KB) Or is there a 
> network or configuration problem?

I wouldn't expect it to take quite that long; I used to print shipping labels on a LP-2844Z in less time than that over USB. 

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair