Jim Easton wrote:
>
> Try rebooting the printer. We had two of these beasts and they
> gradually got slower and slower but a reboot fixed them up. It
> is my belief that its memory was getting fragmented. (Sort of
> typical of HP software/firmware)
Indeed.
> Supposedly there was a fix: A guy I made contact with in the
> inner sanctums of HP said the following:
>
> > To address your second question I spoke with our Jet direct boys and they
> > said there should be a firmware download for your jet direct card that will
> > resolve the slow printing issue, also our corporate team who supports the
> > 8150 also suggested that the firmware in the printer be upgraded if it
> > hasn't been.
>
> I never did apply these patches but someone of my aquaintance tried
> upgrading the printer firmware and she said it didn't help.
My experience too. We have a lot of complaints about HP's grinding to a
very slow speed, and frequent crashes. 8150 in particular.
I try to keep both the printer and the jetdirect firmware up-to-date,
but so far it hasn't been much improvement.
> Also if you find a "Unix" version of the update let us know that too.
The printer firmware can be simply pushed to the printer , eg.
socket -q printer.my.domain 9100 < fw7_109.rfu
I haven't found a unix way to push jetdirect fw, though...
regards,
--
Hans Peter (Usit/Unix-drift,Utskrift) Ni!
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-- Tron �grim, Aftenposten 2003-08-20
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