Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:48:15 +0200 From: "Leslie Jensen" <leslie@eskk.nu> To: markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cups slow when printing from firefox Message-ID: <ea7404827239fad12430e103381ab553.squirrel@www.eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20355.5705.678848.307759@wombat.mininet> References: <20355.5705.678848.307759@wombat.mininet>
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> Hi all, > > I'm struggling with a speed issue when trying to print stuff from > firefox (10.0.2,1). I've set up cups (meta package 1.5.2) on my box > which uses a Lexmark E360dn printer via ethernet. The printer has a > postscript emulation which is set as the default (as opposed to > PCL). I've used a PPD file from openprinting.org which claims that the > printer is 100% supported. Printing works fine in general with all > sorts of text and images, including PDF and LibreOffice and > whatnot. However, trying to print maps from maps.google.de sends one > CPU to 100% for a couple of minutes. Printing the same map from a > Debian box takes a couple of seconds. I can print the map to a file, > and print that file with lpr which also takes just a few seconds. > > While printing from firefox directly, I noticed a process gsc owned by > cups which causes most of the CPU load. I take this as an indication > that the postscript output from firefox is incorrectly rasterized on > my box, instead of sending the postscript data directly to the > printer. I did not make any changes to the default config files except > for adding the printer through the localhost:631 interface. > > Is there anything else that I need to configure, either on the firefox > or the cups end, to make printing maps faster? > > regards > Markus > > -- > Markus Hoenicka > http://www.mhoenicka.de > AQ score 38 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi Markus. If you do a search in the archives you'll see that some of us have printing problems with Firefox. Some even suspect that printing in Firefox is broken. I myself has not been able to solve my specific printing problems which include both Firefox but also Libre office. I'm running Win7 in Virtualbox in order to fix my printing :-( Regards /Leslie
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