On 10/03/2013 04:17 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:32:22 +0200 > "Ian \"Witty\"Whitfield" <editor at federalsaints.net> dijo: > >> I'm happy to export to PDF - I do this all the time with the Journal I >> produce every month - and exporting did the trick for me this time >> with the labels. BUT ... >> 1. If Scribus is *NOT* to be used for Printing - Why does it have a >> 'Print' option?? >> >> 2. File size - the .sla for each A4 page is 34Kb and the >> resulting .pdf files are just under 320Kb. I don't consider these to >> be "large" files (???) >> >> I just tested with a 33Kb .doc file from LO Writer and it took 10sec >> to start printing on my Laser Printer. > I have found that there are printer drivers and then there are printer > drivers. Some have more/fewer features, and some make the printer run > slowrt/faster. As to the latter the speed also varies with the type of > document; some drivers will print one document faster than other > documents, and another driver will print the other documents faster, > and I've never found out why. I have a number of laser printers and I > have installed at least three drivers for each one. I would recommend > trying different drivers.
My experience is also that printing to my color laser HP4500 is slow when I use Linux (especially large pdf files generated by Scribus). I see a long time "processing job" on the printer's display. I use the *hpps* driver and the *hppcl3* drivers. Sometimes the pcl3 driver is faster. I have tried Debian and OpenSuse but result is the same. Because I have a dual boot with Windows-7 I sometimes reboot to Windows and print the file from there, this is much faster. However, color quality when printing from Linux is better. Jan
