Printing to a Lexmark network E120N is very slow

Does Ghostscript take 100% CPU during the time you are waiting for your page? Can you attach sample input files?

Hi :)

Here is a random attachment. It seems to do this for any document I print. I have confirmed this printing directly from firefox, and from the attached pdf using evince.

gs usage seems pretty low. I saw it spike to 24% for an instant (as in one refresh cycle of top) and that was all. The attached sample takes roughly 1-2mins to print the single page on my machine... and it does this for every page if I print a multipage document.

When I hit the print button, I see the printer light start flashing straight away, and hear the rollers in the printer spin up for a few seconds. Then the rolls stop spinning, the light keeps flashing... and it sits and does nothing for 60s or so.

I have changed the printer driver to Generic PCL 5e Printer Foomatic/ljet4d instead, and the print speeds have jumped up dramatically (as in instant again). Unfortunately, this isn't the driver used by default for this printer... I would suggest it might be best to change the defaults until the current default driver (the plxmono one) is fixed?

Same problem here, from two machines. I have the impression that the print job gets sent to the printer completely, and the delay occurs there.

It seems as though it doesn't occur with pages containing only text. Graphics seem to trigger it.

Switching the driver from "Lexmark E120n Foomatic/pxlmono" to "Generic PCL 5e Printer Foomatic/ljet4d" fixes the behavior for me too, on both machines. Jobs are printed immediately with that driver.

I have the same problem. When the printer is this slow, it is practically useless. I changed the printer settings to use the attached ppd file instead (found here: http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2007/01/10/new-printer-lexmark-e120n/#comment-12556), and that both fixes the slowness as well as makes printed graphics look a lot better.

 I can now print a form containing a barcode, and the lines in the barcode stays perfectly sharp and legible. With the default (foomatic/pxlmono), the barcode is full of jagged edges and blurriness.

I see no reason why this PostScript printer has pxlmono as the recommended driver. I am switching it to PostScript on the OpenPrinting database now. The fix will get into Maverick with the next foomatic-db package.

Updated the upstream BZR repository of foomatic-db.

This bug was fixed in the package foomatic-db - 20100806-0ubuntu1

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foomatic-db (20100806-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
     - Correction in ChangeLog

foomatic-db (20100804-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Didier Raboud ]
  * New upstream release
    - New Oki Data Corp B410 (LP: #603894)
    - Lexmark E120 uses PostScript (LP: #548747)

  * Putting under Debian Printing Group umbrella.

foomatic-db (20100630-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    (Closes: #580351)

  * Merge from Ubuntu:
    - postinst's: PPD auto updaters:
      "If the package is updated, it is checked whether existing
       queues use PPDs of this package and if yes, the PPDs get
       updated." (Till)
      Closes: #370335, #437309
    - Split openprinting-ppds into {,-extra}
    - Link the PPD files in the foomatic database
    - Rewrite some descriptions, shorten others.
    - Merge most of the package relationships.
    - Install the apport hook on Ubuntu
    - Remove non-PPD files from the repository, Closes: #546784
    - Remove entries for non-existing drivers.
    - Fix common errors in PPDs that make CUPS choke, Closes: #493104

  * Add myself to Uploaders as I'll help Chris in maintaining foomatic-db.
  * Convert to 3.0 (quilt) source format.
  * Convert to tiny dh7 style.
  * Add misc:Depends.
  * debian/watch: update.
  * Add Vcs-* fields with new packaging repository.
  * Compress PPDs with gzip --best
  * Merge Till's changelog entries.
  * Update README.Debian.
  * Bump Standards to 3.9.0.0 - Rework some Conflicts/Replaces/Breaks.
 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:15:03 +0200

I have Ubuntu 10.04 and it is very fast I have a 3ghz machine with lots of space. This version will not spool to my printer in 20 minutes...it should do it in seconds. I have a e120n networked through my router. It is usually no problem...was until i upgraded. I have tried to upgrade the printer driver but it also does not make a difference.