Printer slowed way down in fedora 19?

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 11 14:54:00 UTC 2013


There is a networked Toshiba color printer at work I use maybe
once every 6 months or so:

Toshiba e-Studio 3530c Foomatic/pxlcolor (recommended)

I just copied all the ppd files and wot-not every time
I upgrade fedora, so I'm not sure how old the ppd I have
is at the moment, but it has been working fine.

On Fedora 20, however, while it still works, it now
seems to be sending an infinite amount more data to the
printer than it used to do. It would formerly print
an 8.5x11 color drawing almost immediately (as long as
the printer was warmed up :-), but now the network
monitor goes to about 1 megabit transfer rate and stays
there for a few minutes when I send a full page color
image to the same printer.

Anyone know what is going on here? Should I maybe
just delete the printer and reinstall from scratch
to see if an updated ppd would work better?


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