[PLUG] Printing speeds

[Anthony Schlemmer]

Rich,

Have you looked at the Linux printer website? Here's the list of HP 
printers. I don't know which Laserjet 5 printer you have but it talks 
about some of the drivers being "slow".

http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=HP

HTH,

Tony

On Monday 12 August 2002 09:00 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Back in the happy days when WordPerfect/8 worked as it should
> (i.e., up until earlier this year), printing a processed bunch of
> words was a quick job on my HP LaserJet 5. The printer is capable of
> 12 pages per minute throughput and that's the speed at which WP docs
> were printed. Now that I've switched to OpenOffice, print speed is
> back down to the level of my LaserJet 4P, about 3-4 ppm.
>
>   It seems to be a function of the application feeding postscript
> output to the system and ghostscript then translating it before
> handing the output to the printer. Which brings up the question of
> what -- if anything -- I can do to increase printing speed.
>
>   If a postscript card is still available for the LJ 5, would that
> make a difference and increase throughput? Are there other options
> available to me?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
>
>
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