From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 0:30:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1513814BD8 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 00:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@cygnus.rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA25951; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 03:30:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 03:30:34 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Thomas Dean Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing is vvveeerrryyy slow In-Reply-To: <199903030732.XAA65447@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Thomas Dean wrote: > I am running smp, 4.0-current, as of Mon Feb 15 03:34:29 PST 1999. > > Printing is very slow. I have a HP LaserJet III attached to lpt0. > Printing in the pcl, text, mode is slower than I expect. Printing in > the postscipt mode is extremely slow. A 30K postscript file has been > OVER 5 minutes and is not finished! have you tried: lptcontrol -p I remeber the friendlies on #freebsd suggesting this to me when i had similar symptoms last year. (try other lptcontrol settings as well) -Alfred > tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message