> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 15 08:57:06 2000
> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:43:52 -0600
> From: Steve Barrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LPRng: RFC1179 vs Socket Printing
>
> I have a few quick questions about printing to Socket 9100 vs
> printing to the 'raw' RFC1179 device on my HP 5Si MX. I
> realize that you can't get the status of you printer when you
> use 'lp=raw@hp_printer', but you cant when you use
> 'lp=hp_printer%9100'. So naturally I want to use the 9100 TCP
> socket. There is one big problem with this. It's very slow.
> It takes to two or three times as long to complete print jobs.
> I believe that the jobs print at the same speed, but there is
> a huge wait between jobs. Is there any way to fix this? Can
> I speed up printing to the 9100 socket? Or maybe there's a
> way to get status (i.e. pagecount) from the 9100 socket but
> still print to the 'raw' RFC1179 device?
>
> -Steve Barrus
Don't get status. It will be as fast as RFC1179 priting. :-)
Where is the wait? Did you look at the status output?
lpq -L
will provide a slew of details, with timestamps, etc.
Patrick
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