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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: Problems with LP and SLIP
Message-ID: <1992Dec28.040945.16999@netcom.com>
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:09:45 GMT
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In article <1hli1tINNlcn@agate.berkeley.edu> usp@jif.berkeley.edu (USP Network) writes:
[lpt driver]
>use interrupts. This new one works fine (thanks to Andy Valencia) but
>seems to be very slow. The speed I get from DOS (arghh :-) ) or
>Interactive Unix is 6 or 7 times faster. That  means that when I have to
>print a large document, it pays to reboot DOS only to do the printing
>and then come back to BSD. Any idea what is wrong ??

I print ghostscript files to a 24 wire printer using the interruptless
printer driver with no speed problems.  What you describes sounds
similar to problems I had printing TeX data using a 9 wire driver.  The
problem was the TeX driver, not the lpt driver.   You might try
ghostscript at different resolutions and see if that makes a
difference.  You are using gs252?
-Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>