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From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printer slow, Help !
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 12:48:43 -0600
Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
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Maciej Wiatr wrote:
> I tried to find a hint in the faq, but it does not exist.
From the FreeBSD FAQ (http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/):
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7.6. Hey! My printer is slow as a dog. What can I do ?
If it's parallel, and all your problem is that it's terribly slow, try
setting your printer port into
``polled'' mode:
lptcontrol -p
Some newer HP printers are told to not work correctly in interrupt mode,
apparently due to some (not yet exactly understood) timing problem.
Slowaris is also affected by this (and that's probably the reason why
the HP support does rather act like an ``unsupport'' here).
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/