El Vie 20 Ene 2006 05:05, Dennis J. Tuchler escribió: (...)

It takes a while to print, but not as long (1.5 -2 minutes) as it takes to get a job to the printer from a word processor or text editor. What file did you download (were you told to do so during installation)?

-- Best regards,

Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA

Take a look at http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1200 My printer also has a USB adapter that connects to the printer's parallel port. Yours may have it also. Try that too, if available. Best regards. -- Alfredo Cole-Tuckler

Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Thursday 19 January 2006 10:27 am, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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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, -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA

Gil Weber wrote:

On Thu January 19 2006 12:12 pm, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Thursday 19 January 2006 10:27 am, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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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

Thanks. How do I find out if I am using CUPS? I suspect I am (that's the default on installation, I think; even for solo machines). -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA

Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Thursday 19 January 2006 1:07 pm, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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Thanks. How do I find out if I am using CUPS? I suspect I am (that's the default on installation, I think; even for solo machines).

The quickest way is to just cat the /etc/printcap file. The first 3 lines should be: # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the # /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file # will be lost. YaST configures this for you. Alternatively you can use CUPS directly through your browser (http://localhost:631). The printer drivers are .ppd files. If you go into YaST/Hardware/Printers, you will get your list of printers, edit the entry for the HP1200. It will tell you the model as well as the ppd file you are using.

Thanks again! I am running under CUPS. So now what? I suppose I should follow your suggestion and change drivers. -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA

On Thursday 19 January 2006 20:06, Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Thursday 19 January 2006 1:46 pm, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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Thanks again! I am running under CUPS. So now what? I suppose I should follow your suggestion and change drivers.

I agree with Gil's suggestion. Could be that the HP 1200 PPD is problematic.

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I have a similar problem... I have a stand alone box as CUPS server with a HP Lj 4L on it. My windows clients on the network print more or less instantly. But my Linux boxes have a delay of anything between 30 seconds to 5 minuter depending on type of file printed. Now I'm in no greater hurry, but it IS annoying. The printing is set up via YAST and pointed to the print server, and YAST reports all tests as OK. Where can i check for more clues? --          /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email   : rikard.j@rikjoh.com web     : http://www.rikjoh.com mob     : +46 (0)736 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78  46 1C EE 56 >

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-01-19 at 11:12 -0600, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

The information I have from YAST2->Hardware information does not tell me whether or not I am running CUPS.

It is not hardware, it is software. The command "rccups status" will tell you.

The printer port is a parallel port.

| Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:59:39 +0100 (CET) | From: Johannes Meixner | Subject: Re: [SLE] First Time User - Problems/Questions | X-Message-Number-for-archive: 252910 ... |> I cannot get the printer (HP LaserJet 4) to function. | | If it is a parallel port printer, don't use ECP/DMA mode | in the BIOS for the parallel port, see above and see | the recommendations in | http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/08/jsmeix_print-einrichten.html | and in | http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/04/jsmeix_print-device-parallel.html | (/etc/modules.conf was again renamed to /etc/modprobe.conf) I would recomend you read that thread, specially Mr. Meixner answers. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDz/WCtTMYHG2NR9URAgkdAJ9nLactrK3RU3UqKnjQT9AwlFgLpgCeJyqG h9cpRH9DqmRRdirh+B9e9JA= =i0vQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----