Re: How to make printer print faster?

2004-01-26 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Well I just tried a lot of settings (resolution to 300dpi, quality to high/medium/low) but it has not influenced the speed of printing at all. The only driver that seems suitable for my printer is the lj5mono or lj5gray. Any other suggestions?

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Terribile
Marco Beizhuizen writes: I did notice an increase of speed (when I changed the resolution from 600x600 to 300x300) of data sent to the printer. Probably due to the decrease of the amount of data sent. But it didn't influence the speed of printing itself, so no 10ppm but more like a few ppm

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-10 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Wed, 10 Dec 2003, the wise Mark Terribile entered: When something is slow, the first thing to learn is _why_ it is slow. With it running, call up systat 1 -vmstat (systat-one-dash-vmstat) and look at the bar graph from the lhs to the center of the display. If you see lots of

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-10 Thread Mark Terribile
Marco, I haven't much time at the moment, so this will not be a clean reply. ... I did the test: - When ps is busy processing the document, a lot of angle brackets are visible in the middle of the graph (under user). But only for a second or two. - When the data is sent to the printer, a

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-10 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Wed, 10 Dec 2003, the wise Mark Terribile entered: I'm wondering if the problem is that everything going through APSFILTER is sent as Postscript or raster. If this is on a 4.x (did you say 4.9?) then you are limited to the 1.1 Meg/sec of USB1 (I'm assuming that it's a USB

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-10 Thread Chris Howells
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 11:13, Marco Beishuizen wrote: I got the impression that the printer is processing the data coming from Windows a lot faster than when the data is coming from FreeBSD. I have a similiar issue with a HP LaserJet 4 Plus, which is capable of 12ppm. It's connected to

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-10 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Wed, 10 Dec 2003, the wise Chris Howells entered: I have a similiar issue with a HP LaserJet 4 Plus, which is capable of 12ppm. It's connected to my network using a JetDirect card on 100mbit switch, so speed of the interface shouldn't be an issue. I'm using the hpijs drivers

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hello, I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network. According to the specifications it should be able to print 10 pages per minute. When using Windows that's not a problem. But using FreeBSD (with lpd configured with help of Apsfilter

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Charles Howse
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 12:19 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hello, I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network. According to the specifications it should be able to print 10 pages per minute. When using Windows that's not a

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:29:15 -0600, Charles Howse wrote: With all due respect, do you know for a fact that your suggestion works? I have a HP1100, configured with apsfilter, and I have tried that very same thing, and it only prints at 600 dpi. Does anyone know the correct driver for the

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Charles Howse wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 12:19 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hello, I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network. According to the specifications it should be able to print 10 pages

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Charles Howse
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:04 pm, Scott I. Remick wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:29:15 -0600, Charles Howse wrote: With all due respect, do you know for a fact that your suggestion works? I have a HP1100, configured with apsfilter, and I have tried that very same thing, and it only prints

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Charles Howse
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:18 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Charles Howse wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 12:19 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hello, I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network.

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Tue, 9 Dec 2003, the wise Peter Ulrich Kruppa entered: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hello, I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network. According to the specifications it should be able to print 10 pages per minute. When using Windows that's not