From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 14 13:34:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axil.magma.ca (axil.magma.ca [209.217.80.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22DF14E19 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 13:34:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ser@intranet.ca) Received: from ser.com (port-5-198.magma.ca [209.217.79.198]) by axil.magma.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA01158 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 16:34:05 -0400 (EDT) From: gerard Reply-To: ser@intranet.ca To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP DESKJET 820Cxi (Windoze printer) Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:03:36 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99051411053901.00330@ser.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My Windoze printer now works fine. I switched to polled mode Thanks ___________ On Wed, 12 May 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 7 May 1999, gerard wrote: > > > I've managed to print something with my Windoze printer. I used the port > > /usr/ports/print/pbm2ppa. > > Congrats. > > > My problem is the speed of the printer. It's very slow, it takes an > > eternity to print just one page. How do I correct this? (FBSD3.1R on > > P133, 6.4GB HDD, 64MB RAM ) regards _________ > > Set lpt0 to IRQ -1 (or use lptcontrol to set it to polled mode). > > DeskJets also hold the page in memory until it reads a formfeed; if you > hit the 'resume' key after the UNIX box finishes, does the printed page > come out? If so, read the Handbook section on printing to add a trailing > formfeed to your jobs. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message