[cups.general] CUPS+HPLIP Laser printer print one page at time in multiple copies or multi multiple pages documents

[Michael Sweet]

If the logo contains transparency then pdftops needs to render it at device resolution and embed the image.  That will definitely slow down printing by increasing the size of the PS output greatly...

On Sep 15, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Rollo Tommasi wrote:

> Il 14/09/2011 18.30, Helge Blischke ha scritto:
>> 
>> Could you please post (an URL to) both PDF files?
> 
> I investigated on the subroutines used to generate the pdf file before printing and I found the "thing" that slow down pdftops during print process. It's a logo made with inkscape (and save using cairo pdf library):
> 
> 13 0 obj
> << /Creator (cairo 1.8.6 (http://cairographics.org))
>    /Producer (cairo 1.8.6 (http://cairographics.org))
>>> 
> 
> http://mcfly.bmlabs.net/other/stuff/logo.pdf
> 
> Every page has this logo inside and pdftops need more seconds to copy each pages of the documents. Could be it a pdftops bug?
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Rollo
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