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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.map.com!usenet From: jay@map.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Question about Printing speed. Date: 5 Dec 1995 22:22:25 GMT Organization: Dr. Fish's Answering Machine Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4a2gn1$707@news.map.com> References: <49vjvo$76g@news.map.com> <4a1uns$9bi@peabody.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: jay@map.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp63.map.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <4a1uns$9bi@peabody.Colorado.EDU>, kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) writes: >In article <49vjvo$76g@news.map.com>, <jay@map.com> wrote: >>Would anyone know why the fbsd print daemon sends stuff to the printer >>as slow as it seems to here? > >If it's still slow, try switching the lpt driver from interrupt to >polled mode (or vice versa): > > lptcontrol -p -u 0 For polled mode > lptcontrol -i -u 0 For interrupt mode I just saw a message a minute ago that mentioned this - they had to switch from interrupt mode to polled mode for the printer to work more quickly. I'll end up doing that first, I think, as it seems to be a popular answer today. :-) Thanks for the suggestions. // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - // Internet: jay@map.com // FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5