Printing under Linux very SLOW

[Lisa Durham]

I finally set up my Canon BJC 2100 elcheapo printer and it works OK but 
the print quality is very bad and it is excruciatingly slow.

I followed the directions that are in the RedHat 9 documentation as to 
how to setup a printer. There were no glitches at all in the setup, 
however the printing speed is about 4 times slower than that of printing 
to the same printer from the same machine booted into WinXP.

Is this normal?

Lisa Durham

[J.B. Nicholson-Owens]

Lisa Durham wrote:
> [My Canon BJC 2100] printing speed is about 4 times slower than that of
> printing to the same printer from the same machine booted into WinXP.

My guess is you're printing at different resolutions from the two OSes or
somehow the settings are not identical.  I have an Epson color inkjet
printer and in higher resolutions the printer slows down dramatically.  I
get a higher-quality print, but the speed is almost so slow as to not be
worth the wait.  This change has nothing to do with operating systems when I
switch between Fedora Core 1 GNU/Linux and OpenBSD.  It has to do with the
settings with which I use the printer.

Once I lowered the resolution of the printer I found a better tradeoff of
speed and detail.

I suggest altering the settings in the printer setup panel for your printer
and see if that increases the speed of the printer.

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:11:05PM -0600, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> Lisa Durham wrote:
> > [My Canon BJC 2100] printing speed is about 4 times slower than that of
> > printing to the same printer from the same machine booted into WinXP.

Another possibility is that the parallel port (this is a parallel port
printer, isn't it??) needs to be tuned. There's a utility for doing
that, but unfortunately I can't remember its name right now.

<later>
Ah. It's "tunelp". Check out "man tunelp"
</later>
> My guess is you're printing at different resolutions from the two OSes or
> somehow the settings are not identical.  I have an Epson color inkjet
> printer and in higher resolutions the printer slows down dramatically.  I
> get a higher-quality print, but the speed is almost so slow as to not be
> worth the wait.  This change has nothing to do with operating systems when I
> switch between Fedora Core 1 GNU/Linux and OpenBSD.  It has to do with the
> settings with which I use the printer.
>
> Once I lowered the resolution of the printer I found a better tradeoff of
> speed and detail.
>
> I suggest altering the settings in the printer setup panel for your printer
> and see if that increases the speed of the printer.
>
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[Ori Glick]

> > Lisa Durham wrote:
> > > [My Canon BJC 2100] printing speed is about 4 times slower than that of
> > > printing to the same printer from the same machine booted into WinXP.

I had the sam problem. Just change the driver from bjc-2100 to bjc-600 
or bjc-4200 and it will print fast again.