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Unload photo card feature of HPLIP Toolbox is too slow over ethernet-connected HP 7310 printer.

Asked by amoeba

When using the "Unload Photo Card" feature of the HPLIP Toolbox with my HP 7310xi printer, it's very slow for some reason (i.e. ~13 KB/s over a 100Mb/s connection.) This process is much faster using Windows XP; both on this computer and with others on the network. I'm not sure where to begin looking for an answer, so anything that might point me in that direction would be great.

I realize that it may not be HPLIP related, but the only time I experience such a drastic slowdown is while unloading a photo card using HPLIP in Ubuntu, so it would seem to be a good place to start. Besides this problem, everything has worked flawlessly with the HPLIP Toolbox.

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Best Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

We are aware of this slowness using the hp-unload feature and are working on possible ways to increase the speed in the future. Currently the best way to use your photo card is to mount the card in your linux distro as a drive, you will have increased speed at that time.

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amoeba (register-pbytes) said : 		#2

Thank you for the response Aaron.

Mounting it in on a per-machine basis will work fine for me. I only reported it because I couldn't find anything on it, so I'm glad that you guys already know about it.

Thanks, again, for the response!

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amoeba (register-pbytes) said : 		#3

Thanks Aaron Albright, that solved my question.

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JW (arch0njw) said : 		#4

Is there any progress on improving the slowness of this? Due to a variety of other issues, this ends up remaining the only way I can reliably get pictures into my computer (USB connection to camera is flaky, card reader on computer doesn't always work...).

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

Sorry I don't have any new update at this time.

Thanks for your support of HPLIP--we appreciate it.

Aaron

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Bastiaan Wakkie (bwakkie) said : 		#6

Still VERY VERY slow!!