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iDeJ

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Registered: 2007-07-12

Posts: 9

slow network printing (cups)

hi,

i have a Brother HL-2150N Laserprinter connected via a crossover cable directly to my laptop.
(KDE4, Kernel 26-2.6.29.1-3, cups 1.3.9-4).
Printer is configured as HP LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS (URI: lpd://192.168.10.2/binary_p1)

Printer works fine for normal Textdocuments (pdf, OOo, etc..) but when i try to print pictutes (e.g. scanned box for university (PDFs, size around 1-5MB) printing takes about 60 seconds per page under Linux - far to long for up to 40 pages!
Under Windows (/w official Brother Drivers) printing starts directly and there is absolutly no delay between the pages!

I have no Idee if this is caused by a network, driver, protocoll, (whatever one can think of) problem!
Help would be very much appreciated (i hate booting Windows for printing only)

CPU Load is around 4% (mostly desktop processes like firefox and kwin), no cups hickups here.

TCP flow rate is about 46kb/s (measured with iptraf during printing), after a 12 page document the cause traffic was around 50MB!

ifconfig

eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:38:6F:93:20
          inet addr:192.168.10.1  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21b:38ff:fe6f:9320/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7936 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:568379 (555.0 Kb)  TX bytes:29381689 (28.0 Mb)
          Interrupt:17

mii-tool

eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok

thx for reading (and answering.. )

Last edited by iDeJ (2009-04-23 14:35:29)