From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 07:33:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FF216A4DA for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:33:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp06.wxs.nl (smtp06.wxs.nl [195.121.6.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CF543D33 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:33:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marco@beishuizen.info) Received: from tsunami.bsd (ipd50a233c.speed.planet.nl [213.10.35.60]) by smtp06.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HPO00J7BR2GN6@smtp06.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:30:16 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:33:16 +0100 (CET) From: Marco Beishuizen In-reply-to: <20031210145644.35794.qmail@web21108.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: marco@tsunami.bsd To: Mark Terribile Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT FreeBSD: Homepage: References: <20031210145644.35794.qmail@web21108.mail.yahoo.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make printer print faster? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Marco Beishuizen List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:33:19 -0000 On stardate Wed, 10 Dec 2003, the wise Mark Terribile entered: > I'm wondering if the problem is that everything going through APSFILTER is > sent as Postscript or raster. If this is on a 4.x (did you say 4.9?) then > you are limited to the 1.1 Meg/sec of USB1 (I'm assuming that it's a USB > printer). USB2 is 450 times faster, and may remove a bottleneck. On the > other hand, the bottleneck may be the speed at which the printer can process > either Postscript or its raster data. And that may depend on some resolution > settings. > > I can't think of how to measure these things offhand, but that's where I > would start. > > Mark Terribile Most of the time I'm printing from a PIII450 which runs FreeBSD 4.8-release and an Alpha which runs 4.7-release (I know I should upgrade but that's another issue :)). The printer is connected to a small network at home, three computers all running FreeBSD and the printer, all connected to a switch. Sometimes I plug a laptop from my work into the network, which runs Windows 2000. Now I think that the data sent to the printer is PostScript and not PCL (if this is possible, I'm no expert on this but I guess that's the reason Windows is printing a lot faster) and that I should install a so called "PostScript emulator DIMM". Problem is that these are hard to find since the LaserJet 2100 is an old model now. I just got a tip on the mailinglist that they are still being sold at http://www.printerworks.com. Now I hope that they deliver to Europe also and that the company can be trusted... Marco -- Finagle's Second Law: No matter what the anticipated result, there will always be someone eager to (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c) believe it happened according to his own pet theory.