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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:58:42 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: printer toooo slow (hpdj990Cxi on lpt0)
Message-ID:  <20041004155704.E22535@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20041004154052.Y1907@pukruppa.net>
References:  <20041004154052.Y1907@pukruppa.net>

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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

> I am running a HP Deskjet 990Cxi on parallel port, with cups and
> hpijs on FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 - everything updated and portupgraded
> last thursday.
>
> Generally it prints nicely, but far to slow - a simple OpenOffice
> document needs 3 or 4 minutes, the cups test page about 10.
> Strange enough I don't see any heavy activities on my CPU or big
> loads on my RAM.
>
> I tried to play around with the configuration, but didn't find
> anything satisfying.
>
> Does anybody have an idea, how I could check what goes wrong with
> this thing? Or could at least someone confirm that I am not the
> only person in the world with this problem?
>
> Thanks for your answers,
>
> Uli.

I'd try to switch to polling mode on lpt0 - see "man lptcontrol".

Regards

Konrad Heuer
GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2@gwdg.de




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