Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:08:31 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS Message-ID: <23529.1319749711@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <20111027143609.60335.qmail@joyce.lan>
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In message <20111027143609.60335.qmail@joyce.lan>, you wrote:
>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.
Even with my direct-to-/dev/{u}lpt0 approach, if I needed to print a really
big file, I would just start the print in one window and then minimize that
one and continue on working in my other windows. I mean in what way would
one need to "wait"?
>>More importantly, CUPS, for me at least, seems to be quite slow.
>>There's a loooooooong pause after I queue something for printing
>>until something actually comes out of the printer.
>
>Yeah. I have a similar printer with a similar problem. I believe
>that what's going on is that the current version of CUPS tells all the
>clients to print to PDF, then for printers that don't handle PDF,
>converts that to postcript using ghostscript which is very, very slow.
Huh??
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??
If so, I can sure see why the multiple pointless conversion would indeed
take up a lot of time.
>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.
I can't really remember anymore if I did it primarily for speed reasons or
because (as now) I just didn't want to have to go thru all fo the falderall
of properly configuring CUPS, but I suspect it was both.
Regards,
rfg
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