On Tue, September 29, 2009 11:05 am, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Bo Lynch wrote:
>> On Tue, September 29, 2009 10:49 am, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> I've googled for this and poked around linuxprinting.org, but couldn't
>>> find anything helpful.
>>>
>>> I have a CentOS 5 server with an HP LaserJet 4 attached via JetDirect
>>> with the hplip driver. The problem is that when I have multiple print
>>> jobs in the queue, there is a delay of about 15 seconds between each
>>> job. This gets very annoying when there are 10-15 one-page jobs in the
>>> queue. "lpstat -t" shows me errors like this:
>>>
>>> recoverable: Network host 'seashell' is busy; will retry in 15
>>> seconds...
>>>
>>> This worked fine previously with the same setup on an old RedHat
>>> release
>>> (Either RH7 or RH9, I don't remember which). The problem appeared
>>> after
>>> I rebuilt the server with CentOS 5.
>>>
>>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bowie
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>> Have you tried using it as a RAW print que?
>>
>> Is this when clients are printing to it via the share?
>>
>
> That's when I usually notice it, but I can duplicate the problem by
> printing text files via lp as well, so the problem doesn't appear to be
> related to samba.
>
> How would I set up a RAW queue?
>
> --
> Bowie
You can do this with cups by selecting make and model as local raw
printer. We have had issues similar to this when printing pdf's. One page
would print then 10 seconds later the next, so on and so on. Using a raw
print que on server and a PostScript driver on the clients seem to work.
Bo
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