500kb Files Take Forever to Print

[William Bechtold]

>
> Hello,
>
> On Apr 3 06:55 William Bechtold wrote (excerpt):
> >> ... network with a mix of Windows, Linux, Unix, and Mac machines
> >> through a switch to a Laserjet 2420DN with 64MB of internal RAM.
> ....
> >> ... when I try to print a file of, say, 500 KB or so, it
> >> takes 20-30 minutes to print, especially web pages
> >> with graphics. This holds true for all the machines.
> >> Yet if I print from a Windows machine with a USB connected
> >> Laserjet 1320, it prints immediately
> ....
> > ... I'm using the Postscript driver
>
> Only a guess:
>
> I guess you mean that you use the Laserjet 2420DN in PostScript mode
> but the Laserjet 1320 uses whatever driver was installed for it
> under Windows - which means for the Laserjet 1320 there could
> be a PCL driver installed under Windows.
>
> Does the Laserjet 2420DN print faster when you use a PCL driver?
>
> According to
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_2420.html
> the Laserjet 2420DN belongs to the APDK device class(es) LJMono
> and Postscript where LJMono means the printer understands PCL
> (usually at least PCL5e) so that you can use various PCL drivers.
>
> E.g. the generic PCL5e Ghostscript driver "ljet4" or the HPLIP drivers
> "HP LaserJet 2420 hpijs pcl3" and "HP LaserJet 2420 pcl3, hpcups".
>
> For a related issue you may have a look at
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751889
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
> --
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany
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>

Johannes: That answer seems so obvious now that I'm embarrassed. I edited the printer installation and selected the pcl3 driver, and it now prints very quickly. I'd chosen the postscript driver simply because that's what CUPS recommended at install, but I'll play with this a bit. CUPS makes it easy.

Thanks so much for your time and kind suggestion!