Fabian,
StarOffice is a resource hog. If you aren't running a P3 600+ with like
128MB RAM, it's slow. It's NOT Linux's system (well, the O/S anyhow).
Please try a test...Use the KOffice products for a bit. Let me know if this
is faster than before (I don't have access to a printer at the moment, but I
have had lots of time to fiddle with SOffice 5.2, and it's slower than
molasses in January, even on my system... P2/300, 96MB, 2MB VRAM laptop).
As for the printing, all sounds correct. It should be a little faster than
that, but it's a little slower than windows with some inkjet machines for
some reason (I have no info why).
Steve W.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fabian Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:16 PM
Subject: [newbie] slow printer performance
> I have a PC pentium 233 with 32MB RAM, and am dual booting
> between Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and Win 95. My printer is an HP
> Deskjet 870Cxi. Under Windows, it prints as expected - 4 to
> 5 pages of black and white text per minute, or thereabouts.
> Under Linux-Mandrake, however, it prints at about one fifth
> that speed. Mandrake recognizes my printer as a series 870C,
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> and lists a driver for it. I configured accordingly, both
> using printtool and DrakConf. I am quite confident that I
> entered all the configuaration info correctly. As I said, it
> does print
> under Mandrake. Also, it runs off the ASCII test page
> without a
> hitch. But when I go back to the KDE desktop and print a
> text document from one of my StarOffice 5.2 files or an
> email from Netscape, for example, it prints woefully slowly.
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> I have gone back to both printtool and Drakconfig to change
> the print filter, choosing other HP Deskjet drivers listed,
> but that has not made any difference. Has anybody got any
> idea what could be wrong and how to fix it? I'll also
> mention that moving around with the mouse on my KDE
> desktop is quick and responsive, but bringing up StarOffice
> and moving around on the StarOffice desktop are slow and
> tedious; i.e., like the printer performance. Star Office
> takes about three or four minutes to appear after I click on
>
> it, and the same for a new document page, once I'm there.I'm
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> throwing this in, not to double up on problems, but because
> I'm wondering if there could be any connection?
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> Regards,
> Fabian
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