Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Landscape printing

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Alex Bligh wrote:
> Luke,
>
> > > OK conveniently enough I have exactly the same printer as you, also
> > > via JetDirect. Mine takes ages to render the PostScript in Windows mode
> > > too, but prints very quickly using the PCL driver. Are you sure when 
> > > you
> > > are printing in Windows you are using the PS driver?
> > >
> > > Alex
> > Hmmm, on Windows the PS driver takes just as long and fails before it
> > completes amurdove.
>
> That's pretty much what I see (well I didn't get a file to fail to
> render, but it took ages). On the other hand if you use the PCL
> driver on Linux (so Ghostscript renders the Postscript) it seems to
> work fine. You might try that one out too.
>
> I thus conclude (apart form the page size problem) I'm producing pretty
> much the right Postscript (meaning the same as Xtreme), but it's too
> complex for the LaserJet to handle. Printing to it in PCL mode works
> because GS rasterizes it. I think it's a memory size issue because 
> I've got
> the rather mode complex probe to render on both PCL and PS.
>
> Alex
Are you using the HPLIP driver on Linux?