Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 19:03:05 +0200 From: markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: cups slow when printing from firefox Message-ID: <20355.5705.678848.307759@wombat.mininet>
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Hi all, I'm struggling with a speed issue when trying to print stuff from firefox (10.0.2,1). I've set up cups (meta package 1.5.2) on my box which uses a Lexmark E360dn printer via ethernet. The printer has a postscript emulation which is set as the default (as opposed to PCL). I've used a PPD file from openprinting.org which claims that the printer is 100% supported. Printing works fine in general with all sorts of text and images, including PDF and LibreOffice and whatnot. However, trying to print maps from maps.google.de sends one CPU to 100% for a couple of minutes. Printing the same map from a Debian box takes a couple of seconds. I can print the map to a file, and print that file with lpr which also takes just a few seconds. While printing from firefox directly, I noticed a process gsc owned by cups which causes most of the CPU load. I take this as an indication that the postscript output from firefox is incorrectly rasterized on my box, instead of sending the postscript data directly to the printer. I did not make any changes to the default config files except for adding the printer through the localhost:631 interface. Is there anything else that I need to configure, either on the firefox or the cups end, to make printing maps faster? regards Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38
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