Date: 27 Oct 2011 22:18:34 -0000 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: rfg@tristatelogic.com Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS Message-ID: <20111027221834.97213.qmail@joyce.lan> In-Reply-To: <23529.1319749711@tristatelogic.com>
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>>I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad >>lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long >>enough that I don't want to wait. > >I don't quite understand the issue you are raising john. $ lpr foo $ lpr bar $ lpr baz It will print the three files in a row, starting each when the previous one is done. Like, you know, a print queue. >John are you saying that my documents, some of which *start out* as >.PS files, are converted by CUPS to .PDF and thence (since I don't >have any printers that speak PDF) the document is then converted >*back* to Postscript for actual printing?? Seems that way, based on a little poking around. If I use something like evince, I think it will do whatever CUPS tells it to do. If I use the basic CUPS lpr command to print a .ps file, that's fast since there's nothing smart enough to do something stupid. >>I think this is a bug. > >If it is, then I think it may be a long-standing one. > >I did something very like what I just described doing on FreeBSD 8.2 also >back on my old FreeBSD 7.0 system which I first installed maybe three years >of more ago. My recollection is that CUPS on FBSD 7 printed a lot faster, although it also may have something to do with the fact that I used to use a USB to parallel thing, and since then I scored a print server card on ebay for about $15 and print over the network. (There are other computers on the network that other people print from, so this is an overall win.) R's, John
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