Dear Till, Thank you very much for taking your time to help investigate this issue and providing us a method to continue the investigation even when you are so busy.
We had tried to figure out the difference of convert into PostScript and no conversion to PostScript by the method you provide on the date 2019-01-18(#15). But negatively, we don’t know the correct way to make it work. We use the PPD attached (Ricoh-MP_C5503_PXL.ppd) to print a job. The output capture file(test_modify_Fail.prn) shows that the capture command did not convert normally. The output capture file(test_modify_Fail.prn) on which you can figure out that capture command file output by the PPD (Add "*FoomaticRIPCommandLinePDF:") missing a lot of commands than the capture command file(test_original_OK.prn) output by the original PPD (without modify). We suspected the definition of FoomaticRIP Command is duplicate by below two define(“*FoomaticRIPCommandLine:” and “*FoomaticRIPCommandLinePDF:”): --------------------------------------- *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "(printf '\033%%-12345X@PJL\n@PJL JOB\n@PJL SET COPIES=&copies;\n'%G|perl -p -e "s/\x26copies\x3b/1/"); (gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dNOINTERPOLATE %B%A%C %D%E | perl -p -e "s/^\x1b\x25-12345X//" | perl -p -e "s/\xc1\x01\x00\xf8\x31\x44/\x44/g"); (printf '@PJL\n@PJL EOJ\n\033%%-12345X')" *End *FoomaticRIPCommandLinePDF: "(printf '\033%%-12345X@PJL\n@PJL JOB\n@PJL SET COPIES=&copies;\n'%G|perl -p -e "s/\x26copies\x3b/1/"); (gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dNOINTERPOLATE %B%A%C %D%E | perl -p -e "s/^\x1b\x25-12345X//" | perl -p -e "s/\xc1\x01\x00\xf8\x31\x44/\x44/g"); (printf '@PJL\n@PJL EOJ\n\033%%-12345X')" *End --------------------------------------- So, we delete the command “*FoomaticRIPCommandLine:” from PPD, Hopping the way can make it works correctly. But the output capture file shows that this method is the same result with two FoomaticRIP Command definition. Can you lead us the correct way to the investigation of no conversion to PostScript. And if you have further investigation result, it’s appreciated to share with us. Attach file introduction: ---------------------------------------------------------- Original PPD Capture file: test_original_OK.prn Modify PPD Capture file: test_modify_Fail.prn CUPS Log file: error_log_Bill_job1043_1072 ---------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, ** Attachment added: "LogAndCapture.zip" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1801496/+attachment/5232011/+files/LogAndCapture.zip -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1801496 Title: Printing job in 16.04 is slower than in 14.04 Status in cups package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Ubuntu 16.04LTS OS Version： 16.04.5 CUPS Version： 2.1.3 Ghostscript Version： 9.25 （2018-09-13） Printing job in 16.04 is slower than in 14.04 We(RICOH printer driver developer) are report a problem from our printer users: I print file Ubuntu 14.04.5, CUPS 2.1.3,Ghostscript 9.25 is fast(12 Seconds). But, after I update to Ubuntu 16.04, CUPS 2.1.3, Ghostscript 9.25, I print the same file with the same driver is slow(326 Seconds). I figure out that all the print jobs is much slower on Ubuntu 16.04. I view the "CUPS Error Log", it shows that there are three points which maybe the reasons that makes the print job slowly. FIRST: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- By counting the time from "Starting renderer" to "renderer exited with status 0", we figure out that 16.04 spend more time than 14.04 on "renderer" process. So we assuming that："renderer" is one of the key process that makes the print job slowly. "Starting renderer with command: \"printf \'\\033%%-12345X@PJL JOB\\012\';printf \'@PJL SET DATAMODE=TWIN\\ ........ @PJL EOJ\\012\\033%%-12345X\'\"" ..... renderer exited with status 0" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND: ============================================================================ On 16.04, a print job outputs lots of logs as below: "[Job xxx] Removing document files." This step(“Removing document files”)does not exsit on 14.04. ============================================================================ The phenomenon that print jobs slower in 16.04 is more obvious when printing many jobs in the same time. THIRD We tried drivers form other company(HP,Brother…), the printings also slow down in Ubuntu 16.04 than 14.04. Our question is: 1. Do you have any plan to improve the performance of printing on Ubuntu 16.04? 2. Do you have any workaround before this problems fixed? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1801496/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
