[CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

[Bowie Bailey]

Bo Lynch wrote:
> On Tue, September 29, 2009 10:49 am, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>   
>> I've googled for this and poked around linuxprinting.org, but couldn't
>> find anything helpful.
>>
>> I have a CentOS 5 server with an HP LaserJet 4 attached via JetDirect
>> with the hplip driver.  The problem is that when I have multiple print
>> jobs in the queue, there is a delay of about 15 seconds between each
>> job.  This gets very annoying when there are 10-15 one-page jobs in the
>> queue.  "lpstat -t" shows me errors like this:
>>
>>         recoverable: Network host 'seashell' is busy; will retry in 15
>> seconds...
>>
>> This worked fine previously with the same setup on an old RedHat release
>> (Either RH7 or RH9, I don't remember which).  The problem appeared after
>> I rebuilt the server with CentOS 5.
>>
>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> Bowie
>> _______________________________________________
>>     
> Have you tried using it as a RAW print que?
>
> Is this when clients are printing to it via the share?
>   

That's when I usually notice it, but I can duplicate the problem by
printing text files via lp as well, so the problem doesn't appear to be
related to samba.

How would I set up a RAW queue?

-- 
Bowie