HP Laserjet 1100, extremely slow printing...

[Andrea Giuliano]

Dear all,

I own this nice printer, and it works quite well, as long as printing 
speed is not a problem. I seldom am in hurry, but I think 15 minutes to 
print 26 pages from OpenOffice 2.0 is a very long time indeed. I 
measured almost the same timings for every kind of print job, even 
simple ASCII text files.

Could I configure the printer in the wrong way?

Please note that I simply added the printer with the 
"System/Administration/Printing" tool, and I selected the recommended 
driver.

Also, the actual printing is rather fast: just a few seconds from the 
moment the printer "hums" and the moment that the page is out. Most of 
the time the printer is silently waiting for something to print, while 
the CPU is working very hard.

Finally, it could be of help the fact that my PC is a P4 with a 2.4GHz 
clock, 256Mb of RAM, and plenty of disc space.

Best regards.

-- 
Andrea Giuliano, Ph. D.
ICCU - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico
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