Re: [Sheflug] CUPS printing and parallel process

[lesleyb <lesley.binks [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

Morris, David (Allvac, UK) wrote:
> I've just put a printer on my SuSE 9.2 box - parallel interface and set
> it up to use CUPS.
>
> It's doing local filtering (the printer is a Brother HL5140) to convert
> from PS to PCL5.
>
> It's awfully slow though. Each page seems to take 15s+ to appear.
> Looking on 'top', the culprit appears to be 'parallel'. I doubt this is
> doing the conversion itself, so I can only guess it's a port polling
> problem?
>
> I'm printing from XP using IPP to http://server:631/....
>
> The server machine itself is a Athlon 2500XP so it's no slouch. It's not
> a bottleneck on the Win side either - that's an 64bit Athlon.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
I set up my faithful Epson Stylus Color 740 on SuSE 9.2 and was stunned 
to find the output was far far worse than when I used the same printer 
on SuSE 8.3.

Am totally unimpressed with 9.2 in a lot of respects and this is one of 
them.

I use latex, convert to pdf and print using cups but I've never used a 
web interface. It may be that which is slowing it down.

Can you use the command line and print a simple text file via lpr and 
then perhaps via your original metjod and compare the speeds?

Regards

Lesley
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