How to increase the printing speed

[Ramesh Babu]

Hi Brian,

        Thank you very much. Now I am able to the printer on Win95 box.
But I don't know why the printing is very slow. Infact the printer waits
for a while before taking the next page. Is there a way to increase the
printing speed. Another important thing is that I cannot use any printer
option in the printer panel on IRIX box. It says "printer type
unkown".Is ther a way I can tell smbprint to use IRIX impressario
drivers for printing and where do I find those drivers in my unix.

Thanks


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Ramesh Babu
ramesh at dna.ncl.res.in
Div of Organic Chemistry (Syn)
National Chemical Laboratory
Pune 411 008
INDIA
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Brian Servis wrote:

 On 21 Dec, Ramesh Babu wrote about "How to print from Unix to Windows"
 
Hi everyone there,

	I use SGI O2 machine with IRIX 6.3 and I have SAMBA 2.06 installed on
it. Now I want to print from my unix box to a HP Laser Jet 6MP printer
attached to a Windows 95 PC. Does anybody know how to set it up. My unix
comes with a GUI to set up printers and has Drivers for HP LJ 6MP (
though I do not know where exactly the drivers are). Any help in this
regard will be appreciated.

 
Look at the smbprint script that comes with the source in the
 ..../examples/printing directory.  It is self documented in the
comments.  You basically set up a print filter on you local machine that
sends the data via smbclient to the shared printer on the Win machine.
 
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