[K12OSN] Laser Printer super-slow?

Jeff Siddall news at siddall.name
Thu Jun 23 13:17:19 UTC 2011


On 06/23/2011 07:42 AM, Barry Cisna wrote:
> Joseph,
> 
> Does plain text files print out quickly from this same printer?
> If this is the case try changing from the foomatic driver to the hplip
> driver.
> If you have networked HP printers the hplip driver provides lots of
> remote diagnostic 'stuff' as well.
> It is worth the time of getting acclimated with the hplip package.
> Here is were to get some general info on hplip and getting started using
> it:
> 
>  http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

You might also run top locally on the client while something is printing
to find out if the client is CPU/memory bound (ex: swapping) etc.

Jeff




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