RESOLVED: Re: OT(?) FC2 Very slow printing to HP DeskJet 870Cse

[Mike McCarty]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Off topic due to age of FC2?
> 
> Anyway, have installed an HP DeskJet 870Cse, and it prints
> unbearably slowly, like 30 minutes per page.

Oh frabjous day! Calloo! Callay!

Success at last! Using GNOME I edited the printer driver options
to "Prerender Postscript" enabled, and I have now printed a 26
page document (which includes the "test page" I've been printing)
start to finish, including queueing time and one paper jam I had
to clear in just under six minutes. That's just about four pages a
minute. Just the one "test page" was taking over twenty minutes.
That's more than 80x speedup.

So, one misconception I had was that this is not a postscript
capable printer. Apparently it is. But the postcript interpreting
engine is S-L-O-W.

Pre-rendering was the trick.

Thanks all for your time and help.

Where should we make note of this, if at all?

Mike
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