Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:58:07 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Terribile <materribile@yahoo.com> To: Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make printer print faster? Message-ID: <20031211165807.86675.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0312101816040.81188@tsunami.bsd>
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Marco Beizhuizen writes:
> I did notice an increase of speed (when I changed the resolution from
> 600x600 to 300x300) of data sent to the printer. Probably due to the
> decrease of the amount of data sent. But it didn't influence the speed of
> printing itself, so no 10ppm but more like a few ppm with a pause between
> each page.
One additional piece of data: on my USB1.1-connected Epson s-C82 under CUPS:
Every six or eight passes the printer pauses. During this interval, the
computer's CPU usage spikes. It looks as though there is some critical place
without needed double bufferring. I don't know what this might do to a laser
printer, which needs to have room to stop and start, and may hold data back
if it sees that a stop is soon likely. One of these days, when the world comes
to a stop and I can take a breath, I'm going to have a look at that and see if
I can fix it.
Mark Terribile
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