Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 10:28:14 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: "Jesse D. Troy" <jtroy@vt.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apsfilter and Epson Stylus Color printer Message-ID: <19970622102814.41455@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <33AC6BF6.167EB0E7@vt.edu>; from Jesse D. Troy on Sat, Jun 21, 1997 at 08:04:06PM -0400 References: <33AC6BF6.167EB0E7@vt.edu>
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On Sat, Jun 21, 1997 at 08:04:06PM -0400, Jesse D. Troy wrote:
> I have recently installed apsfilter 4.9.3 on my FreeBSD 2.2.2 machine.
> I am using Ghostscript 4.02 and an Epson Stylus Color printer.
Which gs driver and resolution do you use for your printer ?
Please enable debugging in /usr/local/apsfilter/bin/apsfilter
by uncommenting set -x. After that you print something and look
at the putput of the logfile (the path you can lookup in
/etc/printcap, lf=...).
Then look, what conversion is done and how ghostscript is
called. I suggest, that you try to use the same commands
on the commandline, to see, how long it takes for the ghostscript
process, to create the print data ... If you redirect the output
of ghostscript to a file, then you'll get the additional information,
how big the print job really is.
This file you can print by using "cat file > /dev/your_print_device.
Maybe apsfilter uses the wrong resolution for the printer ??? So
that the printer works in a not so suitable resolution ???
Then one could try to tweak resolution in /etc/apsfilterrc ...
But possibly you only have a hardware configuration error.
How many LPT devices do you have ?
Might there be an interrupt conflict with another device ?
Or possibly you have interrupt problems and might try
to configure the lpt driver to poll the lpt device ...
> I am
> having the follwing problem. When I print something (anything from
> ascii text to Xfig files) it takes a very, very long time for the files
> to print out, sometimes in excess of an hour. The data always prints
> without any errors, it just takes forever. Do you know why this
> happens?
Try to collect more data on this one ...
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