Ubuntu
foomatic-filters package

Printing is very slow and causes high cpu usage

Bug #78781 reported by Dmitry Petrov
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
foomatic-filters (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Ubuntu ubuntu-7.04

Bug Description

Binary package hint: cupsys

Ubuntu 6.10 with all updates
Printer: Epson C86

When I start to print any document, the printing doesn't start immediately and when it starts, it prints very slow - it takes about 5-10 minutes to print one page.
Also cups takes a lot of cpu(up to 30-40%), and system becomes unresponsible.

When I print images through gimp, the printing speed and cpu usage are ok.

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Dmitry Petrov (demon-krasno) wrote :

Here is a part of /var/log/cups/error_log file,
I hope, it will help to discover the problem.

Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)
Changed in cupsys:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → In Progress
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

I have improved the performance of upstream foomatic-rip (package foomatic-filters). Get the foomatic-rip from the OpenPrinting site

wget http://www.openprinting.org/foomatic-rip

and replace /usr/bin/foomatic-rip by the downloaded file. With this version printing, especially images should get much faster. Please test.

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Dmitry Petrov (demon-krasno) wrote :

The cpu usage is low now, thanks, and printer started to print a little faster, but it's still too slow comparing to printing in windows or previous Ubuntu releases.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Here are the new packages:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/feisty/foomatic-filters/binary/

They are on their way into Feisty.

Changed in foomatic-filters:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)
Changed in foomatic-filters:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Dmitry Petrov (demon-krasno) wrote :

Updated to new version, but still too slow :(
CPU usage is ok.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

The new version is nothing new, it is simply the upstream foomatic-rip which you tried at first, but this time in a Ubuntu package.

The remaining slowness is now caused by Gutenprint and/or GhostScript. Perhaps you are also printing with a higher resolution than used under Windows.

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Michael Losonsky (michl) wrote :

I have a similar problem and slow means: overnight to print the
test page, and I have it set on econonomy/draft.
Michael

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Jason Silver (jasonsilver) wrote :

Printing now takes FOREVER in Ubuntu. What's going on?

Looks like this is an old thread, so I'm likely not getting an answer. :(

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