On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
I'm conducting an experiment with a willing subject at work. I've installed RHL 9 and he's using it in his day to day activity. One of his activities involves logging onto an online 3PL site (Third Party Logistics) and printing a 2 page bar coded shipping document. RHL 9 is configured to use CUPS and the printer is a networked JetDirect printer (HP 2200). When he prints the document, it takes nearly 5 minutes for both pages to finally finish printing. Contrast this to the less than 1 minute it takes for the document to print via Windows. Now, if he logs into a remote X session on our RHL 7 server and prints from there, it prints fast, just like it does from Windows. Both the RHL 7 server and the RHL 9 desktop are running CUPS. The desktop machine is an AMD K6-2 500 MHz with 256MB RAM, the server is a 1GHz Intel. Any ideas on what I can try to speed up the printing?
I'm using RH9 on my desktop at work, and printing is always quite snappy to the JetDirect printers here. I dont' suppose that barcode doc is available for me to try?
Unfortunately, no.
I'd be curious on what is taking so long. Is it his box that is taking forever to generate the postscript?
That's what I'm thinking. The last page contains the bar code, and that takes forever. The first page comes out fairly quickly.
... Or to send the file over the network to the printer, or for the printer to process & print it?
Well, the server and the Windows boxen all deal with the same network and printer and don't have the problem.
Also, have you tried printing to a PS file, and then using lpr to send it to the printer?
No, but that's a good idea. I'll try that, but it's close to end of day here (and month end...), so I'll probly not get to it 'til Tuesday.
Thanks. Tim
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