Lexmark Z23 Color Jetprinter User's Guide for Linux (1.44 MB) - Page 67

Printer prints very slowly, Printer is not queuing documents properly

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Lexmark Z13 Lexmark Z23 Lexmark Z33 Printer overview Basic printing Printing ideas Maintenance Troubleshooting Notices Index Troubleshooting 67 Printer prints very slowly • Close software applications not in use. • Check the document you are printing. Photos and graphics may take longer to print than regular text. • Choose Quick Print or Normal print quality for faster speed. Your document takes longer to print when you use a higher quality setting. • Check your computer resources. Consider increasing the virtual memory for your computer or consider purchasing more random access memory (RAM). Printer is not queuing documents properly • Send the print job to the correct printer. For help, see Print your document. • Check the name of your printer by looking at the names in the spool directory (/var/ spool/lpd) or in the printcap file (/etc/printcap). • In the /etc/printcap file, make sure :lp is pointing to the correct port. For example, if your printer is attached to your first USB port, it is usually defined as /dev/usb/usblp0. Note: You can only print to a USB port if your Linux kernel has USB support. For help, refer to your Linux documentation. www.lexmark.com

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Troubleshooting
Lexmark Z13
Lexmark Z23
Lexmark Z33
Printer overview
Basic printing
Printing ideas
Maintenance
Troubleshooting
Notices
Index
Printer prints very slowly
•
Close software applications not in use.
•
Check the document you are printing. Photos and graphics may take longer to print
than regular text.
•
Choose Quick Print or Normal print quality for faster speed. Your document takes
longer to print when you use a higher quality setting.
•
Check your computer resources. Consider increasing the virtual memory for your
computer or consider purchasing more random access memory (RAM).
Printer is not queuing documents properly
•
Send the print job to the correct printer. For help, see
Print your document
.
•
Check the name of your printer by looking at the names in the spool directory (
/var/
spool/lpd
) or in the printcap file (
/etc/printcap
).
•
In the
/etc/printcap
file, make sure :lp is pointing to the correct port. For example, if
your printer is attached to your first USB port, it is usually defined as
/dev/usb/usblp0.
Note:
You can only print to a USB port if your Linux kernel has USB support. For
help, refer to your Linux documentation.