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Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages

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asdf <asdf@nospam.com> wrote:
> I have set up an old HP laserjet 2300 printer on a relatives PC running
> Debian. It was immediately recognized and installed by CUPS with
> no problems at all and works flawlessly. The only problem being a
> long pause between pages, I mean, if I print one page it starts
> in one-two seconds max, if I print say 5 pages, the first one starts
> immediately as always, but every other page is delayed by about 15
> or more seconds. It doesn't seem a printer speed problem as the first
> page prints real quick, so I gave a look at CUPS defaults and set 
> the right amount of printer memory (48MB), then tried to lower the
> quality from 1200 dpi to 600 to no avail: it still prints all pages
> from the second on with an annoying delay. Any suggestions?
> Thanks!

Sounds like a performance issue with the printing preprocessor. I
have similar trouble since upgrading ghostscript a few years ago.
I've made a few time-limited attempts at upgrading/downgrading
things and trying to find exactly what introduced the high CPU
load (unfortunately I didn't bother to try this until some time
after the upgrade that caused the problems), but never nailed it
down.

Run top while printing and I suspect you'll find a "gs" process
using up all of your CPU power.

I find printing complex web pages from Firefox is far slower
than from a PDF, for example. Presumably due to the conversions
required. In fact web pages can take minutes or fail entirely
(I use other computers for that where possible).

If your printer supports Postscript printing, you can send a
postscript file to it directly using "lp -o raw", this should
print at full speed if my suspicions about your problem are
correct.

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Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages asdf <asdf@nospam.com> - 2019-06-28 12:54 +0000
  Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-06-28 17:21 +0000
  Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-28 20:17 +0200
    Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-28 19:43 +0000
      Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-28 23:06 +0200
        Canon makes printers sold under the HP brand (Was: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-06-30 18:41 +0000
          Re: Canon makes printers sold under the HP brand (Was: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-30 22:27 +0200
  Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-06-28 23:31 +0000
    Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-28 17:55 -0600
      Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-29 06:50 +0100
      Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-29 12:49 +0200
        Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-29 13:49 +0100
      Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-06-30 02:23 +0000
    Re: Laserjet 2300 - pause between pages The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-29 06:47 +0100

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