Off topic due to age of FC2?
Anyway, have installed an HP DeskJet 870Cse, and it prints
unbearably slowly, like 30 minutes per page.
I have used Google, but no joy. Many hits, but none
seems to look just like this one.
Printer is direct connect, no other computers on a LAN etc.
Printer is connected to parallel port.
I am using an IEEE compliant bi-directional cable purchased
just two days ago (just in case the old cable might contribute
to the problem, no change).
No other printer installed.
As an example of print speed (if that is the correct word)
$ ls -l test.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jmccarty jmccarty 16 Jan 17 00:44 test.txt
$ cat test.txt
This is a test.
$ lpr test.txt
Here are the elapsed times to significant events...
0:00 hit return on command
0:06 printer data light flashing, loaded sheet of paper
0:38 printer actually printed something, not all...
at approximately 10 second intervals, printer moved
the print head, data light flashing continually
1:58 sheet ejected, with one line on it printed
So, two minutes to print "This is a test." I have to believe
that, since the data transfer light was flashing the whole
time, something is translating this into a giant
postscript program, or into a pure bit map, or something,
and transferring a huge amount of data. There must
be something wrong in my setup for this printer.
Here is what (Red Hat Symbol)->System Settings->Printing
gives for the printer.
Queue Type
Queue Type: locally connected
Queue Options
At start: no banner
At end: no banner
Top margin: 36 right margin: 36
left margin:36 bottom: 36
cpi 12
lpi 7
page-bottom 86
page-left 57
page-right 57
scaling 100
wrap true
Printer Driver
DeskJet 870C hpijs
Driver Options
send FF no
send EOT no
assume unknown is text no
prerender postscript no
convert text to ps yes
effective filter locale C
res,qual,ink,media 300 dpi,Color,Black+Color Cart
page size letter
model HP DeskJet 870C
printout mode normal
I have another queue for that printer which does two-up printing,
but I haven't checked it for speed. I just know that this queue
is unbearably slow, and I must have set up something wrong.
I tried changing the option "convert text to postscript" to
no, but that made no change.
I would like some direction on how to proceed with this.
Thank you for your time in reading this message.
Mike
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