Subject: Re: Extremely slow printing from Mac to Linux/netatlk
From: Stephen Lubbs (s.lubbs@ieee.org)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 18:05:38 EDT
Hi Marc,
You've piqued my interest. What is PPR and where can I find it?
Regards,
Steve
Marc Miller wrote:
> Or maybe it has to do with the speed of the machine of the network, and of
> the printer. I'm not even using papd; I'm using a beta of PPR (to be
> tested soon with the NATALI patches in 1.5) but it seems to me that a HP
> LaserJet 5Si attached to a 100BT network and a 800MHz server and G4 MacOS
> machines would process the job much faster than a HP LaserJet II on a 10BT
> network, a 200MHz server, and a 6300 series Mac workstation. Especially
> if you add one of the -O# optimization flags to papd on the faster server.
>
> It's just an idea; as I said, I don't even plan to use papd. But it could
> explain 30 seconds vs. 5 minutes. Still, it shouldn't take 5 minutes to
> run it through the queue even if you have a 133MHz netatalk server.
>
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Matthew Keller wrote:
>
> > andrew morgan wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah, papd is slower than samba, but I don't see anything as slow as you
> > > guys are talking about... A "print desktop" command takes about 30
> > > seconds from when you click print to when it starts printing. Maybe there
> > > is something else wrong?
> >
> > I have several different clients running Netatalk, not to mention
> > several of our school's servers - And I can replicated this problem with
> > a myriad of versions and configurations. My "IF" script in printcap
> > doesn't even SEE the print job for quite a bit after the job is
> > "sent"...
> >
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