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From: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Question about Printing speed.
Date: 5 Dec 1995 15:19:53 GMT
Organization: The Sealy Center for Molecular Science
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In article <49vjvo$76g@news.map.com>, jay@map.com writes:
>Would anyone know why the fbsd print daemon sends stuff to the printer
>as slow as it seems to here?
>

[elided]
Set your parallel port to "polled" mode, not "interrupt" mode.

Ghostscript on my 8MB 486-25 is actually quite spiffy.
Bud Dodson
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