[ale] Sharing non-network-capable printer

[James P. Kinney III]

I found the slowest part  to be getting the windows print spooler to
send the entire file to be printed. *nix systems won't even start the
print Q until the entire file is ready to go. Windows (prior to XP)
wants to send bits at a time and see if it fails first before committing
to the entire process.

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 18:45 -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> Same for me.  Once the windows box actually hands off the data to the
> Samba server it goes the max speed of the printer.  The longest part is
> her windows laptop (P3-600) processing the large DoC type files she gets
> from school.
> 
> 
> Thus spake Geoffrey (esoteric at 3times25.net):
> 
> > Randy C. Ramsdell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:32 -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > > 
> > >>Not sure about the MAC side of this but I use a Linux box running
> > >>Cups/samba to share out my USP HP printer to my linux boxes and my
> > >>wife's windows laptop.  (She has to use windows for school)...
> > >>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > We found the printing from this scenario absolutely too slow when
> > > printing from windows systems to a Linux box /samba. I never found out
> > > why this happened. This is why we switched to using a Linksys print
> > > server. Have you noticed slow printing from a windows system?
> > 
> > My wife prints from a windows box to my laser printer via samba, and it 
> > is quite fast.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Until later, Geoffrey
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> :wq!
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