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This should be in the FAQ.

J. Wunsch writes:
>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).