On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:11:05PM -0600, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: > Lisa Durham wrote: > > [My Canon BJC 2100] printing speed is about 4 times slower than that of > > printing to the same printer from the same machine booted into WinXP. Another possibility is that the parallel port (this is a parallel port printer, isn't it??) needs to be tuned. There's a utility for doing that, but unfortunately I can't remember its name right now. <later> Ah. It's "tunelp". Check out "man tunelp" </later> > > My guess is you're printing at different resolutions from the two OSes or > somehow the settings are not identical. I have an Epson color inkjet > printer and in higher resolutions the printer slows down dramatically. I > get a higher-quality print, but the speed is almost so slow as to not be > worth the wait. This change has nothing to do with operating systems when I > switch between Fedora Core 1 GNU/Linux and OpenBSD. It has to do with the > settings with which I use the printer. > > Once I lowered the resolution of the printer I found a better tradeoff of > speed and detail. > > I suggest altering the settings in the printer setup panel for your printer > and see if that increases the speed of the printer. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------
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