Bug#418205: cupsys: printing to a Konica Minolta 2400W is very slow
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.7-4
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Apparently I'm not the only one with this problem, as I found the
following on the cups.org website:
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Ok USB ID is usb://KONICA%20MINOLTA/magicolor%202400W
The good news is that setting bc_flag=0 in backend/usb-unix.c DOES
appear to fix the problem (don't know what happened before).
In addition to the case issue, I think the detection logic in the code
was not quite right. The existing code will always set use_bc=1 if the
you don't have a "Canon". Here is my non-portable solution (strcasestr
is not universally available):
use_bc = strcasecmp(hostname, "Canon") != 0 &&
strcasestr(hostname, "Minolta") == NULL;
Hope this can make it out to the masses - its great to again be able to
print a page in less than 15 min !
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My input is that I have been trying to print a page multiple times to
my printer and have timed it as taking 28 minutes per page when I try to
print the page from 1 to 9 copies. For 10 or more copies, it seems to be
incapable of ever printing a page.
This of course varies with the page I am trying to print. In this case,
I have a two-page document that I wanted 100 copies of. Page 1 printed
eventually. After taking more than an hour to start, the pages finally
started printing fairly quickly.
Page 2 was a different story. It takes a long time before the copy
prints, then the above mentioned 28 minutes for subsequent copies. I
gather the difference is with the amount of communication between the
CUPS server and the printer.
I'd love it if you could make the fix for AMD64 at least. Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii cupsys-common 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii gs-esp 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcupsimage2 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgnutls13 1.4.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13.3 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.21 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-6.2 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-7 Core Perl modules
ii poppler-utils [xpdf-util 0.4.5-5.1 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii procps 1:3.2.7-3 /proc file system utilities
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support
pn smbclient <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
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