[cups] [Brother MFC-8480DN] Printing Slow

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 26 May 2014 23:17:47 -0300 "The CUPS user discussion list." <cups at cups.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi Guys i'm a newbie on CUPS. i'm reading a lot but i can't find a solution.
> At this moment i have a Ubuntu Server 14.04 64bits running CUPS 1.6.2. 
> This printer is a network printer with IP address 10.0.0.10
> 
> I install the printer from web http://127.0.0.1:631 the printer is 
> visible to this host and is installed as 
> dnssd://Brother%20MFC-8480DN._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/
> When i send a test print i have to wait as least 10 seconds to see the 
> any test on my hand.
> I try this connections:
> http://10.0.0.10:631/ipp
> lpd://10.0.0.10:631/ps
> lpd://10.0.0.10:631/BINARY_P1
> 
> The problem get worst when i send a pdf document to print. if i send a 
> pdf with only one page CUPS stay waiting for 5 minuts and then send to 
> printer.

Is the PDF one page of just text or does the one page contail graphics?  What 
is going is that the PDF needs to be converted to PostScript, and this can 
take some time.  Also, the resulting PostScript can be a large file, which in 
turn takes time to send to the printer.  GhostScript is not the most speedy 
program in the world nor does it generate the most compact Postscript when 
converting from PDF.

> 
> I install ppd from:
> * Brother Home Page
> * Ubuntu Repositories
> * Drag and drop from Windows XP running OK this printer.
> Always the ppd is recognized as  Brother MFC-8480DN BR-Script3
> 
> 
> I really don't know how to debug this.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Emiliano.
> 
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