RESOLVED: Re: OT(?) FC2 Very slow printing to HP DeskJet 870Cse

[taharka]

Howdy Mike,

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:52 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Off topic due to age of FC2?
> > 
> > Anyway, have installed an HP DeskJet 870Cse, and it prints
> > unbearably slowly, like 30 minutes per page.
> 
> Oh frabjous day! Calloo! Callay!
> 
> Success at last! Using GNOME I edited the printer driver options
> to "Prerender Postscript" enabled, and I have now printed a 26
> page document (which includes the "test page" I've been printing)
> start to finish, including queueing time and one paper jam I had
> to clear in just under six minutes. That's just about four pages a
> minute. Just the one "test page" was taking over twenty minutes.
> That's more than 80x speedup.

So, you want to run that past me/us again? I assume you used gedit
(gnome editor)? And exactly what path/file did you edit? Inquiring minds
want to know ;-)

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.