Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Printer with Ubuntu

2011-05-19 Thread Robert Lewis
Nice find and I do appreciate your efforts. I don't have two printer descriptions and I am using the same driver he describe it appears. So far the only thing that speeds it up a bit is to select the Gutenprint driver from the list which reduces the resolution and darkness of the print a lot but m

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Printer with Ubuntu

2011-05-19 Thread mikepawlak
Sender: ubuntu-us-ca-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 12:38:14 To: Ubuntu US California Reply-To: bob.l.le...@gmail.com, Ubuntu US California Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Printer with Ubuntu The HP LaserJet printer is maxed out with RAM of 72-MB. Three of

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Printer with Ubuntu

2011-05-19 Thread Robert Lewis
gt; > -Original Message- > From: Robert Lewis > Sender: ubuntu-us-ca-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 07:41:30 > To: Ubuntu US California > Reply-To: bob.l.le...@gmail.com, >        Ubuntu US California > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Pr

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Printer with Ubuntu

2011-05-19 Thread mikepawlak
: ubuntu-us-ca-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 07:41:30 To: Ubuntu US California Reply-To: bob.l.le...@gmail.com, Ubuntu US California Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Printer with Ubuntu I appreciate the feedback and comments. I choose a very simple pdf to

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Printer with Ubuntu

2011-05-19 Thread Robert Lewis
I appreciate the feedback and comments. I choose a very simple pdf to do timing tests as I didn't want to sit around for days accumulating the data. Other printing can take an hour or more to output while the light blinks indicating data is being received. I will be very happy with the 22-second

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Printer with Ubuntu

2011-05-19 Thread Mr. Andrzejak
Interesting data. At my biz we are all happy enough with 20 seconds instead of 2 or 3 minutes (or more). One thing I found interesting is this seems to be a common HP related occurrence. Have you tried contacting them? We too use a Laserjet 1200 for the accountant and for bigger tasks, the rest of

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Printer with Ubuntu

2011-05-19 Thread Robert Lewis
I have tried all of this on a simple pdf file before and include my timing figures for reference.   The print is a lot lighter choosing gutenprint but may be acceptable.  Time will tell.  One issues is that the very slow printing is the default for Ubuntu but on Microsoft the default printing has g

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Printer with Ubuntu

2011-05-18 Thread Mr. Andrzejak
Hi Bob! Ive had the same problem at work. We have blueprints in PDF that are large files, or manuals that need to be printed and it almost feels like the print job gets bottlenecked somewhere. Documents either take forever to print, or never print at all. Ive found a couple of solutions that have w

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Slow printing to Laser Printer with Ubuntu

2011-05-18 Thread Robert Lewis
I trying to help 3 people with the identical issue. One of them being myself. Printing large pdf files and also some web sites is painfully slow to various brand and model laser printers. When I try printing from (ugh) windows7 it is fast. The laser printer LED shows data being spooled to it and l