[9.04] printing slowly on PS printers

[NoOp]

On 09/30/2009 02:27 AM, Jacques Beigbeder wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 2 weeks ago, I asked:
> 
>>> I have a large network of Ubuntu using a print server with lpd://server/myPrinter
>>> I just upgraded the server to 9.04.
>>> Now all options, like Duplex, disappear!
> 
> The answer was that:
> - Ubuntu 9.04 implements
> 	http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/PDF_as_Standard_Print_Job_Format
>   so PDF is the central file format between users and printers.
> - I misconfigured CUPS so I made 2 conversions instead od 1, and options
>   like Duplex were removed somewhere.
> 
>   --
> 
> My question: all my printers are Postscript. Whan acroread submits a file to
> print, it gives a PS file. CUPS then transforms to PDF, and back to PS
> because I have a Postscript printer.
> 
> 42 pages of a sample PDF file (740 Ko) gives an initial PS file of 1.5 Mo,
> and PS to PDF to PS makes the file grow to 50 Mb!! Stupid, isn't it?
> The trip was: acroread PDF to PS, cups PS to PDF, then PDF to PS.
> So real printing starts
>     - later: CPU time needed to do 'gs | gs'
>     - slower: large data files take long time to transfer on networks to printers.
> 
> 	Is there any way to disable this (Cups) PS to PDF to PS?


File a bug. Till Kamppeter is the OpenPrinting Manager at the Linux
Foundation and is very active w/cups issues in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter
If your bug catches his attention, I can pretty well guarentee that it
will get sorted out.