>From: Federico_Lupi@www.datasys.it
>
>I use the same printer and had the same problem.  It turned out to be a
>problem
>with the interrupt driven device driver for the printer (or, maybe, with
>the printer
>firmware).  I solved it using the lpa0 (polled) device in /etc/printcap
>instead of lpt0.
>Now it works fine both for text mode and Ghostscript.
>
>Regards,
>Federico Lupi

I tried that, and it didn't do any good.  Now instead of taking 24 hours
per page, the printer only spit out 1 inch of print in 8 hours -- in other
words, its three times *slower* than it was when using interrupts!

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