netbsd-help: Re: Printing too slow

Subject: Re: Printing too slow
To: Trevin Beattie <trevin@xmission.com>
From: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/17/1999 13:51:08

It really sounds to me like your cable is defective. Can you try another
one, or a shorter one?
-Mike Cheponis
On 1999年9月17日, Trevin Beattie wrote:
> >From: Federico_Lupi@www.datasys.it
> >
> >I use the same printer and had the same problem. It turned out to be a
> >problem
> >with the interrupt driven device driver for the printer (or, maybe, with
> >the printer
> >firmware). I solved it using the lpa0 (polled) device in /etc/printcap
> >instead of lpt0.
> >Now it works fine both for text mode and Ghostscript.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Federico Lupi
> 
> I tried that, and it didn't do any good. Now instead of taking 24 hours
> per page, the printer only spit out 1 inch of print in 8 hours -- in other
> words, its three times *slower* than it was when using interrupts!
> 
> -----------------------
> Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
> trevin@xmission.com for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
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> 
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