large PDF files take long time to get printed

[Helge Blischke]

Paul Kottwitz wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we use CUPS 1.3.8 together with Samba in our company (running on a virtual
> machine). In the network there are around 18 printers.
> We just have a strange problem with printing large PDF files (100 pages+):
> It sometimes takes up to 10 minutes until the job is started and it seems
> that only a few users are affected of this problem. We use WinXP sp3 as
> client os.
> 
> I searched the forum but didnt find anything usefull and hope you can give
> me a lead where the problem could be located.

You need to supply more information about the printers affected (make and 
model, used filters, used backend, PPD, ...) and perhaps about the PDFs 
affected.

Helge