On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 19:12 -0800, Ti Kan wrote: > Carlos E. R. writes: > > The Tuesday 2007-11-06 at 12:45 -0800, Ti Kan wrote: > > > I have an old HP Laserjet 4ML Postscript printer connected to the > > > parallel port of my SUSE 10.0 machine, running CUPS and configured > > ... > > > Anyone could offer an explanation why it's so slow on Linux? > > > > If it affects all print jobs, it might be the port. You can configure it > > to use an IRQ, which is faster: > > > > /etc/modprobe.conf.local: > > > > options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 > > > > Of course, you have to verify the settings in your bios previously. > > If the port is the issue, then wouldn't it affect printouts from > the Windows machine equally? As I said in my original message, > the same type of print job sent from a Windows box over samba to this > printer prints very quickly. > > -Ti > My first question is how much memory do you have for the postscript printer. I fyou are using the standard amount of memory in the printer all for except text, the printing will be pretty slow. I f you are mixing text and image, you need more than the standard 4 Mbytes (I think that is the standard amount). When I had my postscript printer, I had 96 Mbytes, but it was optra 70 color inkjet.
You may want to reconfigure the cups and use the pcl print driver and let the computer do the postscript conversion. -- Joseph Loo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
