On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:46:22PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 13:35 +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > Does CUPS care ? Do you print using Postscript or PCL ? > > Well I'm no printer guru... > > I use PS so I guess CUPS just bangs each page in one go to the printer > so then the answer to your first Q would be 'no'... but as I said I'm no > expert (and am wondering why WinXP has a memory setting for the > printer...)
Try configuring CUPS to use PCL. My experience is that the printer CPU is much slower at parsing PS than ghostscript on a modern PC. I don't know where to do this in the CUPS config, since I use lpr myself. I think the memory setting in Windows is to reduce the resolution if the driver thinks the document might not fit in the printer RAM at the normal resolution. The effect of more memory in printing from linux is that some (complex, high resolution) pages print at all instead of just printing an error message, although I guess that with 16MB that would not be a problem (it was with 4 or 8) Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
