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Slow Parallel printer port

Slow parallel port printing:

What you probably have is a hardware problem. Your parallel port isn't functioning correctly; specifically it isn't generating interrupts when it should, and this causes the SCO driver to run slower. SCO does, in fact "acknowledge" this, much in the same way that you would acknowledge that an accident between two other vehicles caused a traffic jam that caused you to be late for work because you had to take back roads to avoid the mess.

If you got to http://www.sco.com/ta and type in "slow parallel", you'll get 20 or so hits related to this issue, but you'll also see that none of them are particularly recent, and most basically say what I've said in the first paragraph.

"man parallel" on your own system explains how to monitor parallel port activity with "crash" and what you can do if you can't fix the hardware (which is what you probably should do).

In most situations, I replace direct parallel port printers with print servers.

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