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From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
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Subject: Re: printing very slow
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Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:46:55 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970514081503.213D-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com> from Burton Sampley at "May 14, 97 08:19:20 am"
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Burton Sampley wrote:
> Is anybody else having problems printing under -current?  I know I'm using
> an ancient printer (Epson FX 80+ 9 pin dot matrix) but now it's printing
> about 1 pass of the print head every 2 - 5 minutes.  The printer itself
> works fine in test mode.  FWIW I'm using apsfilter from the ports
> collection.  I tried removing and re-installing apsfilter, but I keep
> getting the same results.  The last time I CVSUP'ed and made world
> (include rebuilding the kernel) was yesterday afternoon (PST).
> 
> Any ideas?

Try setting the printer in polled mode.  This is a classic example of
a interupt setup problem.

"lptcontrol -p"

> Burton

Gary

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