Re: Why is Firefox printing in Linux so slow?

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/15/05 

Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:51:50 -0400

<usenet.1.massysett@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message
news:1129323370.747331.118180@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> My problem is now SOLVED.
>
> I examined the mime.types file in /etc/cups. It turns out that
> mime.types had a different file type for "mozilla-ps" than for regular
> "postscript." Thus Firefox printouts were getting typed at
> "mozilla-ps."
>
> mime.convs requires "mozilla-ps" files to be filtered through
> "pswrite." I still do not know what pswrite is; seems to have something
> to do with Ghostscript? At any rate, I figured, why on earth are
> PostScript files from Mozilla getting filtered? They're
> PostScript--send them to pstops and then send them to the printer!!
>
> So I simply commented out the "mozilla-ps" lines in the mime.types
> file. Now Mozilla files print out instantaneously.

Good catch.

Ghostscript is the freeware version of Postscript, and is in a number of
ways superior. But turning one specific ghostscript file into *ANOTHER*
ghostscript file in order to print it is...... doing things the hard way,
and likely to be a big job because the way [P/Gh]ostscript describes print
jobs is very complete, very precise, but it's not very efficient.

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