4 seconds pause before printing

4 seconds pause before printing

[Mgr. Peter Tuharsky]

    Hello,

    I use DOSEMU under Debian Woody, GNOME 1.4, Linux 2.6.1. I have 
printers running by CUPS. When I print from inside DOSEMU, there is 4 
secs pause before printing starts. The pause dosen't depend on CPU or 
machine load, dosen't depend on the program (even copying file to lpt 
under DOSEMU has the exactly pause), and I have verified it on three 
computers, two of them with EPSON LX-300 and one with HPDJ320. When 
printing from Linux, no such pause takes place.
    What could it be?
    I'm happy the DOSEMU runs and I don't complain -the pause is 
something man can learn to live with. But question is still there. What 
is going on?


    Greet You
          Peter

4 seconds pause before printing

[Mgr. Peter Tuharsky]

    Hallo, does somebody have the same problem?
    My mom prints a lot from DOSEMU and she is not comfortable with the 
every-print-waiting.

    What could be the reason of the problem? And can somebody help?

    Peter

Re: 4 seconds pause before printing

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
> What could be the reason of the problem? And can somebody help?
See about a $_printer_timeout option
in dosemu.conf.

Re: 4 seconds pause before printing

[Claudia Neumann]

Hi Peter,

Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2004 07:42 schrieb Mgr. Peter Tuharsky:
>     Hallo, does somebody have the same problem?
>     My mom prints a lot from DOSEMU and she is not comfortable with the
> every-print-waiting.
>
>     What could be the reason of the problem? And can somebody help?

Did you put a

$_printer_timeout = (1)

in your $HOME/.dosemurc?

Otherwise it is a problem of your printer spooler. With CUPS I have a little 
pause with printing the first time in the morning after starting CUPS and 
DOSemu. After that it always prints immediatly the whole day long (if there 
is enough paper ;-)).

Could it be that you configured your printer spooler starting with inetd. Then 
it will take a pause every time you start printing. Start your printer 
spooler as daemon.

cu

Claudia

Re: 4 seconds pause before printing

[Mgr. Peter Tuharsky]

Hi, Claudia.

Thank You for advice, I'll check it but this probably is not the issue. 
I'm not sure whether CUPS starts from inetd, I presume not, but the 
pause before printing is EXACTLY SAME everytime. About 4 secs. The 
machine is powerfull enough (AthlonXP1900+) and starting the print 
daemon surely dosen't take him so long. Mainly the second time and 
later, when it should be already in cache. The start of OpenOffice.org 
is faster ;o)

The printer timeout dosen't affect this problem, I checked this. I'll 
try again however.

And it dosen't depend on machine nor printer! Maybe it depends on the 
version of CUPS, cause I use Debian Woody everywhere.

What is really interesting: the pause appears ONLY if printing from 
DOSEMU. Oter print jobs start immediately.

Thank You again.



Claudia Neumann wrote:

>Hi Peter,
>
>Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2004 07:42 schrieb Mgr. Peter Tuharsky:
>  
>
>>    Hallo, does somebody have the same problem?
>>    My mom prints a lot from DOSEMU and she is not comfortable with the
>>every-print-waiting.
>>
>>    What could be the reason of the problem? And can somebody help?
>>    
>>
>
>Did you put a
>
>$_printer_timeout = (1)
>
>in your $HOME/.dosemurc?
>
>Otherwise it is a problem of your printer spooler. With CUPS I have a little 
>pause with printing the first time in the morning after starting CUPS and 
>DOSemu. After that it always prints immediatly the whole day long (if there 
>is enough paper ;-)).
>
>Could it be that you configured your printer spooler starting with inetd. Then 
>it will take a pause every time you start printing. Start your printer 
>spooler as daemon.
>
>cu
>
>Claudia
>
>
>  
>

Re: 4 seconds pause before printing

[Claudia Neumann]

Hi Peter!

Am Montag, 3. Mai 2004 07:42 schrieben Sie:
> And it dosen't depend on machine nor printer! Maybe it depends on the
> version of CUPS, cause I use Debian Woody everywhere.

I use Debian testing/unstable with cupsys-1.1.15-4.

With CUPS you should install a printer only printing in raw mode. Give the 
printer a short name say "raw". But the printer name in /home/user/.dosemurc 
with $_printer="raw". Try making the "raw" printer the default printer. CUPS 
has made a file /etc/printcap.cups. Copy the file to /etc/printcap (without 
cups). Now it should work.

cu

Claudia