On Thu January 19 2006 12:12 pm, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Thursday 19 January 2006 10:27 am, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
SuSE 10 and HP 1200 Laserjet Printer. It takes up to two minutes for a simple list of names on a single sheet to be sent to and printed by the printer. It doesn't make any difference whether the application sending the job is OpenOffice, gedit or kwrite. I suspect it is the printer driver. What needs fixing so that I can make this work faster?
Please send a bit more on the configuration Are you running CUPS? How is the printer attached to your system: Parallel port? network ? What driver are you using?
The information I have from YAST2->Hardware information does not tell me whether or not I am running CUPS. Neither does the Printer set-up program. I have the name of the printer as the device name in both programs (device is /dev/lp0), so I suppose the driver is the one associated with the HP Laserjet 1200. The printer port is a parallel port. I should add that I had no problem like this under SuSE 9.2.
Thanks for answering my plea for help. I hope I have given enough information to begin to solve the problem,
Don't know if this will help, but I had similar weirdness with my HP Laser Jet 5P when upgrading from 9.2 to 9.3. The printer worked flawlessly under 9.2, but would only print seemingly random characters -- pages of gibberish -- with 9.3. Someone on the list was kind enough to suggest that I try using the Laser Jet 4 driver rather than the driver for the 5P. And that worked! The printer runs fine now using that "incorrect" driver. Note that I am also using CUPS. Maybe there's the seed of a solution for you in this? Good luck. Gil