The new version is nothing new, it is simply the upstream foomatic-rip which you tried at first, but this time in a Ubuntu package.
The remaining slowness is now caused by Gutenprint and/or GhostScript. Perhaps you are also printing with a higher resolution than used under Windows. -- Printing is very slow and causes high cpu usage https://launchpad.net/bugs/78781 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
