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

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Tue May 27 07:53:43 PDT 2014


At Tue, 27 May 2014 08:44:53 -0300 "The CUPS user discussion list." <cups at cups.org> wrote:

> 
> El 27/05/14 08:01, Stephan Graf escribió:
> > Hi!
> > I am not sure, if it is the same issue, but in 2011 I investigated the
> > printing from CUPS to an HP2055. It took a couple of minutes to print a
> > scanned file (in PDF format).
> > Then I used an different PPD
> > (http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html).
> > the result was, that the printing was quit fast (10-20 seconds).
> > When I took a closer look to the difference between the original and the
> > new (HPLIP) PPD, I found this line:
> >          *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 hpcups"
> > This is the reason. CUPS will translate the PDF/PS via the hpcups filter
> > to an raster format file (HPGL?? I am not sure).
> Hi! i will see this file and send comments.
> 
> >
> > My conclusion was, that the HP Postscript interpreter is doing a bad job
> > and the solution is, that the CUPS Server has to do it (using hpcups
> > filter).
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Stephan
> Do you have any link to see how do this?
> 
> 
> El 27/05/14 08:05, Robert Heller escribió:
> > 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.
> Is only one page with a graphic in A4 format.
> Is better to send a .jpeg file instead of .pdf with graphics?

Best is a *PostScript* file, since that requires no pre-processing.  A jpeg 
would still need to be converted to PostScript, and that will take time, 
depending on how large the jpeg is.

> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Emiliano.
> 
> 
> 

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