On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:09:26PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> I have an HP870Cse, which I'm sure you are all getting tired
> of hearing about. I have three queues set up for that printer,
> one at 300dpi greyscale (default), one at 600dpi greyscale,
> and one which is two up 300dpi greyscale (color cartidges are
> just too expensive, IMO). Each of these is set up in the
> GNOME Print Mangager for pre-rendering, since the postscript
> interpreter on that printer is S-L-O-W (like 30 minutes per page)
> while transferring a graphics image is acceptably fast (like 4 pages
> per minute).
I assume by the Gnome Print Manager you mean system-config-printer.
This program just does not work properly in a CUPS environment.
Set up your printer using the CUPS web interface
and I think you will find the results will be more to your liking.
>
> But I find that only the first two actually honor the pre-rendering.
> If I print to TwoUp, then it does indeed print two pages side-
> by-side on the page, but it takes 30 minutes. If I use mpage,
> I get 4 pages per minute again.
>
> Is anyone aware of why that would be or what I could do to
> correct that?
>
> Also, I'd like to do some two-sided printing. This printer does
> not have a duplexer, so I've been investigating using mpage or
> psmandup for that. Does anyone have experience using these
> in this manner automatically by setting up the queue to use
> them directly?
>
> Mike
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