Problems with printing

[Paul Gear]

On 09/07/10 10:22, David Bowskill wrote:
> Dear Paul
> Thanks for your helpful suggestions.
>
> I have changed the printer driver
> from:  Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended by Ubuntu)
> to:      hpijs pcl3, 3.10.2
>
> The printer is now printing without delaying.
>
> Is this that Foomatic/pxlmono uses PostScript ? - and that this is 
> very slow in the HP1200 printer? - as you suggest by a very 
> underpowered CPU.

To my knowledge, pxlmono does NOT use PostScript, and i'm surprised that 
it performs poorly.  However, it obviously was causing problems in your 
case.  It appears that something changed between intrepid (8.10) and 
jaunty (9.04):
     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/359484
So it seems that hpijs is a better bet for now.  It would probably be a 
good idea to add your vote to that launchpad bug.

It appears that there are some other issues relating to some of the 
recent changes to pxlmono as well:
     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/361772/
     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-db/+bug/150985/

Paul

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