Brother HL-5150D memory

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Morten Ohlsen

Hi,

I recently bought the printer mentioned above. Since it went quite slow on
Linux with CUPS via USB 2.0 using the appropriate PostScript PPD, I decided
to expand its memory.

That thing now has 80MB available but that does not seem to bother it.
Printing is as slow as ever. How can that be?

cheers
/Morten
 
I recently bought the printer mentioned above. Since it went quite slow on
Linux with CUPS via USB 2.0 using the appropriate PostScript PPD, I decided
to expand its memory.

That thing now has 80MB available but that does not seem to bother it.
Printing is as slow as ever. How can that be?
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We need more information e.g. what app you use
for printing. You can experiment by disabling the
OS's spooling function (since you now have 80 Mb to
receive formatted data in the printer.)
 
Hi Don,

well I'm using CUPS (Common UNIX Print System) on Linux. CUPS simply
converts everything it receives into proper Postscript. I even tried
printing with WinXP using Brother's Postscript driver. Unfortunately that
didn't make it faster.

I always thought the printer automatically caches incoming data while
processing the current page. I seems as if the printer blocks until the
current page is finished.

But I certainly will try to disable spooling. I'll check back later.

/Morten
 
Morten Ohlsen said:
Hi Don,

well I'm using CUPS (Common UNIX Print System) on Linux. CUPS simply
converts everything it receives into proper Postscript. I even tried
printing with WinXP using Brother's Postscript driver. Unfortunately that
didn't make it faster.

I always thought the printer automatically caches incoming data while
processing the current page. I seems as if the printer blocks until the
current page is finished.

But I certainly will try to disable spooling. I'll check back later.

/Morten
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You'll find that Brother does not use true Adobe PostScript. It's an
emulation (I think they call it BRScript). Are you using a Brother .ppd or
a generic PS? And in the end you may find that printing PostScript on this
printer is just slow, probably a combination of the implementation of
PostScript and the processor . I have several of these, but all my users
are using PCL, and the printer itself seems speedy enough even with the
default 16 Mb.

Mark
 
I'm using the PPD and yes, it uses BRScript.

The problem is, that there is no proper PCL driver for linux. I tried some,
but each of them lacks support for duplex printing or high resolution or
something else.

Any ideas?

/Morten
 
Spooling does not change a thing.
It seems as if the Postscript interpreter is too slow. But it should at
least buffer additional pages. That a design flaw.

/Morten
 
Morten Ohlsen said:
I'm using the PPD and yes, it uses BRScript.

The problem is, that there is no proper PCL driver for linux. I tried some,
but each of them lacks support for duplex printing or high resolution or
something else.

Any ideas?

/Morten
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Well ... use the traditional Linux/Unix fix ... write your own!
 
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