printing is slow with 11.04

What is the make and model of the printer!? Why have you left this out of the question....

sorry.... HP printer/scanner 1400 series

with all applications? i have same printer and same problem, but only with libreoffice, eg. gedit or firefox prints ok, just libreoffice prints slow(i don't have other app which handles *.doc or *.odt files).

P.S. i'm using archlinux, so common things is only CUPS and HPLIP.

I haven't printed anything off Firefox yet, just PDFs /docs, so yes, just libreoffice, strange, isn't it?

it's annoying because if I want to print off more than, say, 3 pages or so I have to transfer to USB drive, then other computer, then print, otherwise it would take forever......

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep hplip

Sorry, I'm pretty new with Ubuntu...I hope you wanted me to enter it into the terminal---this is what I get

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
Linux jake-ThinkPad-T42 2.6.38-13-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 8 16:48:07 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
ii hplip 3.11.1-2ubuntu2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
ii hplip-cups 3.11.1-2ubuntu2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - CUPS Raster driver (hpcups)
ii hplip-data 3.11.1-2ubuntu2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files

HPLIP 3.11.5 is on the HPLIP site, mark the file as executable and run it in a terminal as user (without sudo)

May help

Thanks, I will have to try this to see if it works.

in my case it's definetely libreoffice(or atleast it's default settings) problem. i scanned document, opened with "gimp" and printed and it was printed in normal speed, not like libreoffice.

Ok can you give the output of:

dpkg -l | grep libreoff

Thanks

haven't gotten the file to execute--saved the zip to desktop, cd Desktop, entered ./filename and I get "cannot execute binary file" if I extract to desktop and run it tells me it is a directory-- if I add .bin it tells me no such file or directory...what am I doing wrong, besides most everything.......????

here's the output---

ii libreoffice-base-core 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- shared library
ii libreoffice-calc 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- spreadsheet
ii libreoffice-common 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- arch-independent files
ii libreoffice-core 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- arch-dependent files
ii libreoffice-draw 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- drawing
ii libreoffice-emailmerge 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- email mail merge
ii libreoffice-gnome 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- GNOME integration
ii libreoffice-gtk 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- GTK+ integration
ii libreoffice-help-en-us 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- English_american help
ii libreoffice-impress 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- presentation
ii libreoffice-math 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- equation editor
ii libreoffice-style-human 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- Crystal symbol style
ii libreoffice-writer 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1 office productivity suite -- word processor

What is the name of the file you downloaded and where is it located?

Also run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade

on the desktop
hplip_3.11.5.orig.tar.gz

ran
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade
Done

grab the .run fle

Try:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/3.11.10/hplip-3.11.10.run/download

okay, ran this and it installed and wants me to plug in the printer, so I will have to try this when I get home tonight

thank you for all your help & time---I really hope this works!

Everything installed good, the software works, hooked up & printed....still.......slow......as......before......

well, it was worth a try!

Wondering if an upgrade to 11.10 would help?

Could try it in liveCD

That's a good idea, I'll try it and see

Okay, tried 11.10 from live CD with the same result.

I installed AbiWord this morning and will give a try printing from this to see what happens...

same speed with AbiWord, unfortunately

is there anything else I can try, or should I go with a new printer?

Thanks for the help!

Are there any bugs reported?

I don't get any errors when printing---it will say "your printer may not be connected" when it is printing (obviously not the case), no errors in the status....

delete printer and setup again from scratch and choose "HP PSC 1400 Series, hpcups 3.11.10"(install "cups" if there is no such driver) NOT "hplips" driver and restart "cupsd", with CUPS driver everything works OK.

OK, I'll try this