On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:01:03AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote:
> More than a year ago I purchased a used HP Laserjet 5MP with a low
> page count (15k).  I connected it to my Debian server, configured it
> in Cups and all was well.  It wasn't a speed daemon, but it printed
> a page every other minute if it wasn't too loaded.  I have upgraded
> the memory to the max (24MB) and that speed it up a bit.
> 
> Lately, the printer slowed down drastically, the new rhythm is one
> page every 15-20 minutes!  These are PDFs, with some small graphics,
> nothing out of the ordinary.
> 
> I moved the printer from my Debian server to my Ubuntu workstation.  I
> then moved it to a Windows laptop.  It is all the same.

I poketh around the Windows print dialog and I upped its "Postscript
Memory" to "2600k" from the original "760k".  I spooled the same PDF
and now it was spitting out pages without any pauses in between.

Weird...

Now, how do I replicate this miracle onto my Debian server?

florin

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