[CentOS] Slow Printing HP-2025dn

[David Nelson]

Sort of a shot in the dark, but it sounds very much like a problem I saw using a LaserJet P2035 on Mac. It worked but took a couple minutes to print even the most basic output. I never found a solution using the proper driver, but I discovered it did print a lot faster if I picked the generic PCL driver. 


> On Apr 18, 2015, at 20:41, Mark LaPierre <marklapier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey All,
> 
> You know how sometimes you have a problem but you just live with it?
> Well I've got one of those problems.  I have an HP-2025dn printer
> connected to my home network.  When I print a plain text document
> containing the text, "this is a test", from my wife's Windows 7 machine
> using the text editor the print job finishes in less than 15 seconds.
> If I print two copies the second copy comes out so quickly after the
> first that the first one hasn't time enough to settle in the output tray
> before the next copy is already exiting the printer output slot.
> 
> When I try to print from either my 32 bit or 64 bit Centos 6.6 machines
> it takes two minutes and 30 seconds, 2:30, to print the first copy and
> 2:15 to print the second copy.  Again this is just a plain text message
> containing the words, "this is a test", printed from gedit.
> 
> I've just been living with this for a while now but tonight I got out
> the stop watch and tried to fix this issue.
> 
> [mlapier at peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ^hp
> hplip-common-3.12.4-6.el6.x86_64
> hpijs-3.12.4-6.el6.x86_64
> hplip-libs-3.12.4-6.el6.x86_64
> [mlapier at peach ~]$
> 
> [mlapier at peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ^cup
> cups-pk-helper-0.0.4-12.el6.x86_64
> cups-1.4.2-67.el6.x86_64
> cups-libs-1.4.2-67.el6.i686
> cups-libs-1.4.2-67.el6.x86_64
> [mlapier at peach ~]$
> 
> When I select the option to combine multiple copies into one print job
> when printing from LibreOffice I always get multiple print jobs.  I'm
> not offered that option when printing multiple copies from gedit so I
> can't speak to that.  I do get multiple print jobs from gedit too.
> 
> I did some googling but found nothing Linux related but I did find a
> couple of Windows references to slow printing with this printer on the
> HP site.  They pretty much said that this is not the speediest printer
> on the face of the earth so stop whining.
> 
> I don't remember when this problem first appeared but I do remember that
> I used to be able to print a document from LibreOffice before in less
> than one minute but now it takes several minutes to print the same document.
> 
> I know, I'm rambling again.  I would be more specific if I had any idea
> what the problem is.
> 
> Does anyone out there have any idea how I can even determine where the
> problem is?
> 
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