printer toooo slow (hpdj990Cxi on lpt0)

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Konrad Heuer wrote:

>
> 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".
That's great,

thanks!

Uli.

>
> Regards
>
> Konrad Heuer
> GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2 at gwdg.de
>
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