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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slow printing
Date: 26 Feb 1996 00:16:54 +0100
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Steve "Kiwi" Roy <sroy@jumppoint.com> wrote:
>sroy@jumppoint.com (Steve "Kiwi" Roy) wrote:

>>I since upgraded the motherboard to a cyrix 5x86 and now my printing
>>(parallel port) is slow.  Like 1 line every 20 seconds.
>>Any ideas anyone?
>
>I should add it is an onboard paralled port rather than a card as on
>the 386.

Disable the printer port on the motherboard, and use your card again.
It looks like your onboard parallel has interrupt problems (or you
have misconfigured it).

>>Also how do I remove the banner page from print jobs?

The `sh' (suppress headers) capability in /etc/printcap is your friend.
-- 
cheers, J"org

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