Re: CUPS Not pre-rendering PostScript

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:09:26PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>  I have an HP870Cse, which I'm sure you are all getting tired
>  of hearing about. I have three queues set up for that printer,
>  one at 300dpi greyscale (default), one at 600dpi greyscale,
>  and one which is two up 300dpi greyscale (color cartidges are
>  just too expensive, IMO). Each of these is set up in the
>  GNOME Print Mangager for pre-rendering, since the postscript
>  interpreter on that printer is S-L-O-W (like 30 minutes per page)
>  while transferring a graphics image is acceptably fast (like 4 pages
>  per minute). 
I assume by the Gnome Print Manager you mean system-config-printer.
This program just does not work properly in a CUPS environment.
Set up your printer using the CUPS web interface 
and I think you will find the results will be more to your liking. 
>  
>  But I find that only the first two actually honor the pre-rendering.
>  If I print to TwoUp, then it does indeed print two pages side-
>  by-side on the page, but it takes 30 minutes. If I use mpage,
>  I get 4 pages per minute again.
>  
>  Is anyone aware of why that would be or what I could do to
>  correct that?
>  
>  Also, I'd like to do some two-sided printing. This printer does
>  not have a duplexer, so I've been investigating using mpage or
>  psmandup for that. Does anyone have experience using these
>  in this manner automatically by setting up the queue to use
>  them directly?
>  
>  Mike
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