Printing Over A LAN Network

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Sat Jan 8 18:22:01 UTC 2005


lør, 08.01.2005 kl. 12.47 skrev Frank smith:
> Hi
> I have had the same problem
> 
> I think its something to do with the way windows compresses the data
> before the printer gets it.
> Cups doesnt do this.
> The only way I have got round this although still slower than XP is
> using postscript direct to the printer
> ( If you printer can do this)
> 
> Cheers
> Bob

> 
> 
> On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 02:35 -0500, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> >      I have just configured printing over a small LAN using CUPS.
> > However, when I begin to print, it takes about three minutes for a print
> > job to leave the queue and go to the printer.  Has anyone ever
> > experienced this before?  How do I correct this problem.  I would
> > generally click on the printer icon on the task bar and it says that
> > printing began three minutes ago.  It is generally around this time when
> > each individual print job begins.  
> > 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
Are you sure there ain't any DNS problems here? If you ping the machine
sharing the printer, is it sucessfull? Can you do a tethereal dump while
doing that?

I personally admin a cups server on a small network my self, and havent
seen any problems...




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