Thanks for the info, assigning to gutenprint. According to linuxprinting.org database the gutenprint driver is the only driver that can be used for your Epson C86 printer.
I think either the gutenprint driver is slower or some settings can be changed to make it print faster. Perhaps you can find someone with the same printer on the linuxprinting.org forums or on the gutenprint forums (http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4359) that can confirm this or knows a solution. Leaving this bug open for other Ubuntu users with an Epson C86 or similar model that know a solution or have the same problem: please add a comment. -- [Edgy] Printing with Epson C86 very slow https://launchpad.net/bugs/79261 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs