Printer prints white space very slowly

Ipozya · 02-12-2011, 01:59 AM

Hello everyone,

I have successfully gotten my Canon MX300 Printer to work with CUPS. The printer works great, but for some reason it prints out white lines incredibly slow. The printer acts as if it is printing out actual text, e.g. if I have half a page of empty space, it prints it line by line for some reason... Anyone know what may cause this? I know that CUPS is not ideal with all printers, but it did not do this at first actually.

brian-va · 02-20-2011, 08:24 PM

Try leaving it unplugged for an hour or so to clear the printer's memory.

Soadyheid · 02-21-2011, 10:53 AM

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but it did not do this at first actually

So, what did it do before the problem?
It looks like it's using some sort of very basic driver, i.e. it's having to print something at each character position whether it's a visible character or white space. Did you upgrade cups or some other printing software?

You haven't told us which Linux Distribution you're running which may be relevant. Check out:

http://downloadnew.org/drivers/print...ers-92738.html

for a linux driver and let us know how you get on.

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