Re: Printing to HP Laserjet 1100
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:37:01PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 10:31, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a HP Laserjet 1100 printer. It works ok with magicfilter.
> > In the Debian machine with magicprinter, it prints about 2 pages
> > per minute.
> > Using the driver that came with it, in a machine with other Pseudo-OS
> > that I wont say the name here :-) it prints 8 pages per minute.
> >
> > I am using the same 600x600 resolution in both tests.
> >
>
> What are you printing (and how did you configure your printer)?
> actual transformation from file format to printer language is done by a
> large variety of programs depending on the format of your file and the
> way you want to use your printer
Hi Michael,
I am printing postscript files. Used 'magicfilterconfig' to configure it.
Just changed the resolution from 300 to 600 in /etc/magicfilter/...
I had another off-list answer to this question. Ben told me to check
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62816
and I discovered that this printer is very slow with ghostscript
versions prior to 5.50
"potato" gs is 5.10, so I changed this printer to another machine that
is "woody" (gs 5.50) and it worked very fast.
I think gs 5.10 uses PCL4 to send data and gs 5.50 uses PCL5, that
supports some compactation while sending the data.
> > It seems that the faster driver implements some data compression and
> > data is sent quickly to the parallel port. (not sure about this)
>
> Or that it does not need to be transformed (much more probable)
the time spent was not during the conversion. It was the transmition to
the printer.
Thanks to everyone,
Pedro
>
> Michel.
>
> > Is there any configuration in the parallel port that could make it
> > faster? (the bios parallel port configuration are the same in both tests)
> >
> > Does anyone know something about this??? Any hints?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pedro
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