Re: Why is Firefox printing in Linux so slow?

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 10/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:12:51 +0200

usenet.1.massysett@spamgourmet.com wrote:
> Then I tried the new SuSE. Firefox printing is extremely slow. Even
> when printing relatively simple webpages (e.g. a newspaper article from

Well, I guess FF generates PS that your printer takes a long while to
process. Perhaps it's not very good at PS or likes a different "level"?
Why not pass the PS generated by FF off to a filter that generates
whatever other language your printer accepts, say PCL?

Peter