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From: jay@map.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Question about Printing speed.
Date: 4 Dec 1995 19:59:52 GMT
Organization: Dr. Fish's Answering Machine
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Would anyone know why the fbsd print daemon sends stuff to the printer
as slow as it seems to here?

I'd installed Ghostscript (and re-compiled to remove X support from it), and
tested it by printing a PS-ified man page (sa.8), and it took roughly 4 hours to
print.  While the output was certainly nice, I know my Deskjet 540 can print 
faster than a line per minute or two.

My system:  Fbsd 2.0.5, 386DX-33 with 387, 8 Mb RAM, 16 Mb swap partition.  No
X windows.

I also noticed that it seemed to print faster when the system was under
more load than "just" the print daemon doing its thing.

Thanks for any suggestions.

// Roland Jay Roberts  -  Team OS/2  -
// Internet: jay@map.com
// FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5