On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:14:10AM -0500, Dean.Benjamin at mm.com wrote: > At 12:01 AM 10/8/2007, Florin Iucha wrote: > >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 have worked with the HP LaserJet 5 series for years. These > printers choke on large graphics, exhibiting precisely the symptoms > you report. My hunch is that embedded in your PDFs are huge megabyte > images, shrunk down so that they look small on the page (ie, a 24-bit > color 2000x2000 TIFF that appears only as big as a postage stamp), A > LaserJet 5 will take tens of minutes to print such pages. > > If my hunch is right: > > ** The PDF you are attempting to print is really big -- several > megabytes per page. No, it is 1.7 MB for 22 pages. It printed the first 9 pages in 3 hours when connected to Debian server. It printed the last 13 at "small initial processing" + 13 x "full page speed" ~ 2-3 minutes when connected to the Windows laptop. > ** Your printer works at normal speeds on "normal" PDFs and simple > B&W text pages. Nope. It crawls even for the "cups test page", which is normally quite fast. > Another explanation for big PDFs: Some applications produce PDFs in a > fax-like process, by first rasterizing each page, then PDF-ifying the > whole-page image to produce the PDF page. Such PDF files can be > immense, even if the document appears to have no graphics whatever. This is indeed one of those PDFs, because it is an article from a journal published before common era, in 1955. Thanks, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20071008/6ac65e08/attachment.pgp