Joseph Loo writes: > 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.
OK, I ran Yast and changed the PPD file from "HP LaserJet 4ML v2013.003 Postscript (recommended) (manufacturer-PPDs/hp/HP_LaserJet_4ML.ppd.gz" to "HP LaserJet 4ML Foomatic/ljet4 (HP/LaserJet_4ML-ljet4.ppd.gz)" and printing from Linux is now fast. I don't know if this is what you suggested, but it works. Thanks for the suggestions. -Ti -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
