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[James Holden]

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On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 11:06, John Hodrien wrote:
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> > Graphics seem to stuff up my laserjet too. It's an old-ish 2100, but
> > it's had the RAM beefed up to 20MB. If I throw a file at it that
> > contains even a few little low-res images, it takes ages to print. I'm
> > quite sure that wouldn't be the case on windows.
>
> 2100M with slightly more ram suffers the same problem.  Suffers far less if I
> send it PCL rather than PS.

It doesn't do PS.

I don't quite know why it's taking so long. I have little shell script
that scans an image an blats it straight to the printer, for one-off
photocopies. It's along the lines of 'scanimage ... | lpr'. That prints
almost immediately. How come when I try to print a few crummy little
GIFs and a couple of lines of text it chokes for about 5 minutes?

> > The printer isn't *that* ancient. For example, I've been looking at
> > houses to move to (we've outgrown ours) and if I print a web page with
> > maybe 6 or 7 300x200 (ish) pixel images and some text, which results in
> > maybe three pages of output, it takes about 5 minutes to process it.
> >
> > ANyone any ideas?
>
> PCL would be my only suggestion I'm afraid.
>
> jh
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