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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