[CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

[Bowie Bailey]

Bo Lynch wrote:
> On Tue, September 29, 2009 11:05 am, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
>
> You can do this with cups by selecting make and model as local raw
> printer. We have had issues similar to this when printing pdf's. One page
> would print then 10 seconds later the next, so on and so on. Using a raw
> print que on server and a PostScript driver on the clients seem to work.
> Bo
>   

I set the printer type as raw and then restarted cups just to make sure
the change was active.  No effect.  Still have the delays.

Any other ideas?

-- 
Bowie