New printer?

[Robert Meyer]

Well, first of all, I would start using 'xpp' for printing.  It will bring up a
dialog box similar to the type of thing you would get in windows that will give
you all of the options that the printer supports.  If the printer type is
called out by type in the driver, then you should be able to do it.

You should also be able to control the resolution and printing modes, which are
the typical slowdowns on a printer.  Stuffing out text in photo mode is
obviously bad but dropping to 300DPI draft mode will spray out text pretty
quick.

That should get you to where you want to be without buying a new printer.

Cheers!

Bob
--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> I'm thinking about getting a new printer.  I have an HP Deskjet 895 Cse 
> which works just fine with two exceptions:
> 
> 1) Under Linux, it prints about 2ppm at normal color resolution (and I 
> don't know enough to fine tune the ps to pcl process, etc. to make it go 
> faster).  It's a whole lot faster in Windoze.
> 
> 2) It doesn't do 2-sided (duplex) printing by itself (and that's almost 
> all the printing I do.)  I've emulated duplex, but I still have to 
> shufffle the pages in out and back in, one print job at a time.
> 
> So, what I want is a similar printer that does duplex.   It has to be 
> fully supported under Linux, of course.  I'm not sure, but it seems like 
> a printer that can do native postscript (I have no idea if I need level 
> 1, 2, or 99) would run a lot faster than one that does PCL, etc. where 
> the CPU has to translate all the ps to soemthing else before anything 
> prints.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> "One does not discover the new lands without consenting to lose sight of the
> shore for a very long time." --Andre Gide
> 
> 


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