my printer's way slow

[Dana Booth <dana@oz.net>]

I use OpenBSD 2.4 on a PC (amd) plenty of ram & disk room, etc., etc.
The printer is a Canon BJ bjc-4200.

The slow printing has gone on for quite a long time, I don't use the
printer much, and never really thought too much about it.

Anyway, what happens is that the printer will print out a line or two,
think for about 15 - 20 seconds, print another line or two. The reason
I thought to write is because I sent a job to the printer, which was
one page plus about 10 lines of text, and it just finished after about
ten minutes.

The printcap is generic; I only send plain text to the printer. 'real'
print jobs get sent from 95, hehe...


lp|local line printer:\
        :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

By the way, graphical and formatted stuff sent from other computers is
also real slow. When I first setup OpenBSD in version 2.3, it did just
fine, but I must've hit a config something or other about a week later,
because that's only about how long it printed okay. Anyone have any
ideas?


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Dana Booth <dana[at]oz.net>
Tacoma, Wa., USA
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