Re: linux cups slow printing help

["Robert Krawitz-2" <user=69@nabble.blu.org>]

    Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:56:35 -0400 
   From: Bob - BLU <[hidden email]> 

   I have a customer that I am transitioning from SCO Unix to RHEL. 
   The server is used for an application that generates simple text 
   reports.  They have a variety of HP printers.  I need to be able to 
   print this simple text output and set: landscape, lines-per-inch, 
   character-per-inch, margins, printer tray.  Very doable with 
   command line options to 'lp'.  The problem is that cusp takes by 
   124KB text file and turns into a 1.4MB binary (ghostscript?) file 
   in the print queue.  Under SCO, and cups with the 'text-only' 
   driver, printing takes 1:45 (~10 secs per page).  Under cups with 
   any other driver (hpijs, pcl5e) printing takes 6:45 (~40 secs per 
   page).  I can't use the text-only drivers because I need landscape, 
   printer tray selection, etc. 

   This horrid print speed isn't acceptable to the customer.  Any 
   ideas on how to work around this? 

   I only have two so far: 

   1) Tell the customer to replace all printers with newer faster ones. 
   2) Write my own PCL to wrap around the text files and print raw. 

What's the hardware the host is running on?  Which driver are you 
using, and what settings (quality, resolution, and so forth)? 

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