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- From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
- Subject: Re: SLLOOWWW Printing from SCO ODT
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:38:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.023853.18973@openage.openage.com>
- References: <1993Jan11.183720.7129@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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- yon@smltlk.zko.dec.com (Dave Yon) writes:
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- >Can anyone help me get decent print queue performance from SCO ODT 2.0?
- >I've got a Deskjet 500 connected to the standard LPT1 port of my Gateway,
- >and even though I've got all lp daemons running at priority 0, it takes
- >five minutes just to print a banner page! Is there something I'm missing?
- >It would be nice at some point to install Ghostscript to get Postscript
- >support for this printer, but if an ASCII-only banner takes this long,
- >I'm not even gonna bother.
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- >Any help appreciated...
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- >--
- >David Yon
- >yon@smltlk.zko.dec.com <--- use this address
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- best place for this dicussion is biz.sco.general.
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- But I digress...
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- You probably need to verify that the parallel port interupt is the one you have
- selected in software, as I recently did this, and a change from IRQ 5 to 7 made
- a 20x performance difference!
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- If all the hardware and SW agree, ask b.s.g to send you the info on fixing slow
- parallel printing.
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