Fabian Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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,
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> throwing this in, not to double up on problems, but because
> I'm wondering if there could be any connection?
>
> Regards,
> Fabian
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Fabian,
If you can, try adding another 64mb of RAM. With 96mb I think you'll see a
significant increase in speed with your box's performance (though not
necessarily the printer (though it may help there also).
Mike
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Benjamin Frankilin
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