[CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

Tue Sep 29 14:56:11 UTC 2009
Bo Lynch <blynch at ameliaschools.com>

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?