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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:7699 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1969 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1775 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zib-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uwp From: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: [FreeBSD] Slow printer Date: 04 Jan 1994 13:17:53 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2gbqa4$ln8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: vize.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi ! I bought a deskjet compatible ink printer and I am using ghostscript to convert documents from PS to deskjet. I have a strange problem now. If I send simple text to the printer (in FreeBSD), the printing works fine and it's as fast as under MSDOS. When I'm sending coverted PostScript stuff (which means binary data) the printer becomes very slow. It prints one row and then it waits for 2 seconds and after this waiting it prints the next row. Under MSDOS the same file gets printed very fast (without any printer driver, just with "copy file /B PRN"). Can anyone explain this to me ? And how can I change this behaviour ? Perhaps change some paramaters in the lpa driver (I'm using /dev/lpa0 for printing device) ? The lpt driver didn't work for me, the printer just hung up, so I have to use the lpa driver. Thanx for any answers, Udo -- Udo Wolter INTERNET: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de, wolter@db0tui11.cs.tu-berlin.de BITNET/EARN: WOLTER@DB0TUI11