Bodinux, it is not Ghostscript or the driver which takes so much time.
It seems that the printer fails to connect in most cases. On a failed
attempt CUPS retries some minutes later, up to 5 times. So if you get
your job printed after 35 minutes, it is because some attempts to
connect failed and once an attempt succeeded, 35 minutes after
submitting the job. If you do not get a printout at all, 5 attempts
failed and CUPS gave up.

To set up a printer with another than the standard backend (LPD, IPP,
SMB) start system-config-printer via

System -> Administration -> Printing

Click the "New" button. The New Printer wizard pops up. There click the
triangle at "Network Printer" to expand the list for the network
printers.

For the LPD backend

Choose "LPD/LPR Host or Printer". Enter the IP address of your printer
into the "Host" field on the right. Leave the "Queue" field blank and do
not click on "Probe". Click on "Forward". Now choose the manufacturer,
click "Forward" and choose the model. Ass driver you will probably only
get one choice, the foo2lava driver. Click "Forward". Edit the fields if
you want, and click "Apply". Click "Yes" for printing a test page. Does
it print? If not, right-click the new printer icon and check the
options, especially the page size.

For the IPP backend

Choose "Internet Printing Protocol". Enter the IP address of your
printer into the "Host" field on the right. Click the "Find queue ..."
button. Choose a queue and click "Forward". Now choose the manufacturer
and model and do the rest as described above for the LPD backend.

For the SMB backend

Choose "Windows printer via SAMBA". Click "Browse" on the right. If the
printer appears as one host in the list, choose it. If not, it does not
support SMB or it is not activated.

Check also whether LPD, IPP, and/or SMB access on the printer is active
by the printer's administration interface. Access the printer's
administration interface by entering the printer's IP address into the
URL field of a web browser.

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Documents silently fail to print 9.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374416
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