More details please? What model printer?
Are the jobs single or multiple pages? Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.lprng.com) > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 18 09:20:17 2003 > Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:27:29 -0400 (EDT) > From: William C Beegle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: LPRng: LPRng and slow printing > > We've switched to LPRng/ifhp for most of our campus printing. It's mostly > working (aside from some hard-to-fix duplex problems). Most of our > printers are HP8??0 printers with at least 32MB of memory. > > We've seen a significant increase in printing time. That is, it takes a > lot longer to print most documents. We're also seeing a lot of the 79 > errors that others on this list have mentioned. > > I can understand delays between jobs: we're using ifhp to get page counts, > so the printer doesn't receive the next job until the current one is > finished (e.g. no multiple-job caching). What confuses me are the delays > during jobs. It seems like the printer only receives a page at a time. > A page is ejected, the data light blinks for a bit (10 seconds to a > minute), another page is ejected, etc. Our old system was stupid, but it > kept the buffers full and the printers busy, even when the pages had a lot > of graphics. > > Is it possible that some part of the printing system is trying to > "protect" the printer by only sending data a page at a time? Could the > switching between Postscript (for the print jobs) and PCL (for the page > counting, etc.) be causing problems (I suspect that this switching is > accounting for some of the 79 errors, but I don't have enough data to > prove it)? Might ifhp be attempting to get status information during the > job? > > -willie > > -- > "I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
