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cups package

Slow Printing

Asked by Brian Hersom

I have Ubuntu 10.10 all my updates are installed as of this post. I am connected to a wireless router and my printer is hardwired to the router using Cat 6 UTP wire. My printer is a brother HL-2170W series printer which is a laser printer. My computer can print to the printer, however it take a really long time to process the job. I have messed other things up with Ubuntu in the past so it is very possible that I have messed something up again. My biggest issues with print speed seem to be with .pdf files and printing directly from web pages, however a 2-3 page open office word document can take ten minutes or more to print.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#1

what happens when you connect your printer directly to your computer instead of through a router? does it speed up?

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Brian Hersom (hersom-birds) said : 		#2

It Runs slow even connected directly. I want to use this printer for more
than one computer so having it attached through a router works the best. It
however has always been very slow to print. The "processing" light on the
printer lights up right away but it just takes a long time for a page to
load onto the printer. If I go into system, admintistration, printing, then
right click on the printer icon, select properties and print a test page.
That only takes about 15-30 seconds to print.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Log a bug

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Carl Davis (carl.davis) said : 		#4

Did you configure your pinter through automatic network discovery or did you manually choose the protocol and then enter the printer's IP address?

I had a problem in the past where if I used the auto discovery feature cups was then trying to utilize SNMP in some fashion and was incredibly slow. If I manually configured the printer my slowness went away.

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Brian Hersom (hersom-birds) said : 		#5

I used the automatic network discovery. Can you tell me how to go about setting up my printer manually I'm new to linux.

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Brian Hersom (hersom-birds) said : 		#6

Ok I deleted my printer and then went to add a new printer, under network printer when my printer came up it is listed twice, I select the second one in the list as it has the printers ip address listed. Then at the bottom there is a connection option with an expand down arrow. I expanded and selected the AppSocket option then select forward the rest was the same as normal and that finally appears to have worked.