Slow Printing on Brother HL-5150 -- More Memory?

[Brian Puccio]

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 04:04 -0700, Scott wrote:
> Brian Puccio wrote:
> > Anyone use this (or similar printers) and experience a slow down --
> > minutes -- when printing anything with images? I note that I can upgrade
> > the RAM from 16MB to 144MB, however, I'd rather not spend the money
> > unless I knew that things would speed up. The machine that is acting as
> > the printer server is plenty quick, so I'm pretty sure that isn't the
> > bottleneck.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> Are you using drivers from Brother?
> 
> http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/

I didn't even think to look there actually. Since the printer was listed
in the add printer wizard, I assumed that the supplied driver would
suffice. I'll try the Brother drivers. They seem to be GPL'd.

Thank you for your help, Scott.
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