On 30/06/10 17:48, Aaron Konstam wrote:
Since these are network printers it seems the problem is probably
associated with network connectivity. Can you telnet to the printer at
port 631? I assume you set up the printing on the two printers
separately or is a print server involved? Trying to delete the printer
from the F13 machine and reconfiguring it would be worth trying. Is
other printing from the F13 machine proceeding normally or is it also
slow?
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I think my problem was due to the printer driver for the HL-2170 selected during the install. Changing the driver seems to have improved things. I will know more tomorrow morning when I print more crossword puzzles.
There is no one computer serving as a printer server. Each of the three printers stands alone on the network with it's own wireless Ethernet connection. My computers run Linux and are configured via cups individually to print to those addresses. The other computers on the LAN are all Apple Macs and each of them is configured to work on the printers by addressing which ever one they want to use.
There is a confusion factor however that I have only understood after looking at this stuff carefully today. Both the CUPS and the system-config-printer screens show the printers configured on my computers and the Macs. If when printing from Firefox I bring up a printer screen I have to be careful to select the HL-2170 printer for this address and not one for one of the Macs otherwise I get nothing and the system locks up until I kill the process. With F-12, Firefox would only print to the default printer which could be either the 2170 or the 5140, I had different settings on the two Fedora computers I normally print from.
And I just printed 11 pages of a pdf manual for a Netgear WNDR3300 router on the HL-2170 printer and that went normally.
So far it appears the problem was a poor driver selection.
Internet connection is intermittent here tonight due to the weather in Laredo, Texas where our satellite path terminates. I can't send at the present time.
Bob
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