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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:56:35 -0400 From: Bob - BLU <[hidden email]> I have a customer that I am transitioning from SCO Unix to RHEL. The server is used for an application that generates simple text reports. They have a variety of HP printers. I need to be able to print this simple text output and set: landscape, lines-per-inch, character-per-inch, margins, printer tray. Very doable with command line options to 'lp'. The problem is that cusp takes by 124KB text file and turns into a 1.4MB binary (ghostscript?) file in the print queue. Under SCO, and cups with the 'text-only' driver, printing takes 1:45 (~10 secs per page). Under cups with any other driver (hpijs, pcl5e) printing takes 6:45 (~40 secs per page). I can't use the text-only drivers because I need landscape, printer tray selection, etc. This horrid print speed isn't acceptable to the customer. Any ideas on how to work around this? I only have two so far: 1) Tell the customer to replace all printers with newer faster ones. 2) Write my own PCL to wrap around the text files and print raw. What's the hardware the host is running on? Which driver are you using, and what settings (quality, resolution, and so forth)? -- Robert Krawitz <[hidden email]> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [hidden email] Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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