-----Original Message----- From: shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Bergman Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 11:33 AM To: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) Subject: Re: Evolution extremely slow printing HTML email Wolfgang Gill wrote: > What make and model of printer is it?? > > I have a Canon S830D. When I print using cups' native drivers, it > prints very slowly. But when I print it via Turboprint, it prints > around 3 times faster. > The printer is an HPLJ5. It's not the printing that is slow. It's the generation of the postscript to send to the spooler. The postscript file is ~22MB in size and takes minutes to generate, evolution being totally unresponsive the whole time, not even redrawing its windows. The same thing happens if I print Generic Postscipt to a file. If I then run it through ps2ps it gets distilled down to 18k!!! The postscript file evolution is generating is over 1200 times the size it should be. -Steve I guess in a way that is what I mean. The TP drivers talk to the printer natively. Where Cups generates a Postscript format and then sends it to the printer. I'm in the office right now, and don't have Evolution configured, else I'd try it here. I've always found the Cups drivers to be slow regardless of the type of printer. Just as a test here at the office, we have a HP LJ4100TDN and I noticed the driver was configured for Postscript. I sent it a 12 page document and it took around 2 minutes to print the first page. I then changed it to gimp-print, and it was instant. That might help speed things up a bit. Wolf ###################################################################### Attention: This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshalsoftware.com ###################################################################### -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
