Very slow document printing.

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Tue Sep 14 03:24:07 PDT 2010


upscope wrote:

> Cups 1.4.4
> 
> When i try to print from my Okular (certain pages) {Example: PDFServlet.zo
> from Okular} to my XeroxPhaser 6120 printer I see the following error in
> the Cups error Log:
> 
> E [13/Sep/2010:14:01:57 -0700] Bad request line "^V^C^A" from
> localhost!
> 
> The printer status says:
> ▼ ID ▼
> Name
> User
> Size
> Pages
> State
> Control
> xeroxphaser6120-87   PDFServlet.zo   finemanruss   993k   Unknown
> processing since
> Mon 13 Sep 2010 02:01:18 PM PDT
> 
> I have had this problem since cups 1.4 came out. 1.3.13 printed fine with
> same PPD.Even after I cancel the job, the printer remains in the
> processing state. Have to power it off and on to clear.
> 
> Have tried newer PPD from LinuxPrinting and original PPD from Xerox that
> was working.
> 
> Actually while sitting here typing this the page printed. It started at
> 2:01 PM and printed at 2:24 PM.
> 
> Here's access log output: I canceled job after 14 minutes thinking it
> would never complete based on the past. (1.4.3 after 1 hour had never
> printed).
> 
> 
> Cannot believe it takes 23 minutes to convert a file of 993K, printer has
> 640MB of memory.
> 
> Can anyone tell me if they have seen a similar Problem?
> 
> Thanks
> 

That "bad request line" error messages probably is due to a misconfiguration 
of the SSL layer you are obviously using. Check both the port numbers 
(perhaps 443 instead of 631 ?) and the encryption parameters in cupsd.conf.

Helge






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