On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:13:13PM +0300, Itay Duvdevani wrote: > Hello y'all, > > Got a printing question... > > Lately I've purchased a new USB OfficeJet 5510 printer (one of those > all-in-one thingies). > I got it running under my Debian unstable server, using CUPS and HPOJ > without a hitch. > > It's a printing server (a weak PII with about 133MHz), and since I've > installed HPOJ (I've used HPIJS for my old printer) printing takes > FOREVER to complete (ptal-mlcd takes about 99% of CPU usage).
Is it set up as a postscript printer? In this case the print server needs to convert the posscript to the actual print format. This is quite nice to avoid replacing the drivers everywhere just becasue a printer was replaced, but also means extra CPU time for your print server. Take a look at the "raw" driver(?) on cups. > > I've gone through the troubleshooting documents of the driver, and saw > that printing slowness is a known issue. Taking their advice, I > checked to see if I can turn off composite USB (can't, printer won't > work), and verified I'm using usblp.c (that's a 2.6.10 machine) and > not libusb. All of this didn't help. > > During a print, the load on my machine can get to 4.0-5.5. This means more than one process. Or maybe too little memory, starts a disk swapping party. > > Does any one here have any experience with this driver and its CPU > consuming behavior (or a better way of printing and scanning?) -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
