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Date:      Thu, 15 May 1997 23:33:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        crtb@capecod.net (Chuck)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Slow printer behavior
Message-ID:  <199705152133.XAA00461@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <199705151924.PAA00231@localhost.nih.gov> from Chuck at "May 15, 97 03:24:20 pm"

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> Running FreeBSD 2.2.0-RELEASE.
> Problem:  Printer (a Canon BJ200 Bubble-Jet) runs at normal speed about
> half the time, but often excruciatingly slowly.  Sometimes it will print an
> entire page, pausing about ten seconds between passes across the paper.
> And other times it goes at normal speed.  I use apsfilter and
> ghostscript 3.51 for most printing.
> 
> This behavior just began about a month ago.  I think of a bad connection
> somewhere, with an ACK signal failing or something like that.  Or is it
> possible that the printer port interrupt can get turned off, and the
> /dev/lpt driver fails to restore it?
> 
> Wonder if anyone else has seen this happen.  I'd be grateful to find out!

Nope, I'm using the same printer, apsfilter, ghostscript 2.6.2 and -current
and never seen anything like that.

Wolfgang



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