[Kde-print-devel] [Bug 200120] New: collate and/or reverse causes slow printing

[ietc at gmx.net]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200120

           Summary: collate and/or reverse causes slow printing
           Product: kdeprint
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kde-print-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: ietc at gmx.net


Version:            (using KDE 4.2.96)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

When either collate or reverse (possibly both: not tested) print output options
is selected, Okular seems to send each page to the printer one at a time
instead of the whole document at once.  This results in the following printer
behavior:

1. Receive data
2. Process page 1
3. Load paper
4. Print page 1
5. Process page 2
6. Load paper
7. Print page 2
8. And so on

By contrast, when neither option is selected, the printer behaves as expected:

1. Receive data
2. Process page 1 (and probably more)
3. Load paper
4. Print page 1 while loading another sheet
5. Print page 2 while loading another sheet
6. And so on

Not sure if perhaps the implementation of these options is creating several
discrete PostScript files and sending them in the desired order to the printer
or something.

(Tested using Konqueror.)

Okular version 0.8.90
Using KDE 4.2.96 (KDE 4.3 RC2) "release 142"
OpenSUSE 11.1
Brother HL-4070cdw
  Brother's PPD file version 1 (2007-04-18)

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