printer is pausing between pages

[Guest]

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?)

Hello,
I'm using a Brother hl 1440 with 34 MB memory attached to a cups server
running on a Linux machine.

When sending a file to be printed (from lp, for example) I can see the
"Data" LED flash, then steady, a page starts to print, and the LED
begins flashing again. There is a pause, the LED steadys, then the
second page prints, etc. So, it seems to me what is happening is that
for some reason my cups server is only sending one page at a time to the
printer, waiting for confirmation that it's printed it, then sending the
next page.

Oddly, my cups error log does not support this hypothesis, as the
following shows the end of the output to the error log prior to the
print job starting:
<snip>
D [16/Oct/2004:18:17:42 -0400] [Job 192] %%Page: 6 6
D [16/Oct/2004:18:17:42 -0400] [Job 192] --> Output goes to the FIFO
buffer now.
D [16/Oct/2004:18:17:42 -0400] [Job 192]
D [16/Oct/2004:18:17:42 -0400] [Job 192]
D [16/Oct/2004:18:17:42 -0400] [Job 192] Found: %%BeginPageSetup
D [16/Oct/2004:18:17:42 -0400] [Job 192] Found: %%EndPageSetup
D [16/Oct/2004:18:17:42 -0400] [Job 192] End of page header
D [16/Oct/2004:18:17:42 -0400] [Job 192] Saw EOF!
D [16/Oct/2004:18:17:42 -0400] [Job 192] Flushing FIFO.
<snip>

Is this an issue with cups not understanding how much memory my printer
has? In windows, I can print out a status sheet from the printer using
Brother's software, that verifies the 34M is being recognized, but I
have no idea how to perform a similar operation using cups.

Thank you,
Gabriel

 

[Alan]

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?)

Gabriel <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:<Wfhcd.62$Y2.2930@news.tufts.edu>...
> Hello,
> I'm using a Brother hl 1440 with 34 MB memory attached to a cups server
> running on a Linux machine.
>

My guess is the RAM is specified in the PPD file for your printer.

But if that's no help, try <http://www.cups.org/>, which has some
forums and links to newsgroups specifically about CUPS.