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My printer’s drivers took 10 seconds to rasterize a single page, so I made my own CUPS filter chain to output acceptable PCL for the printer
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Mike Dilger ☑️ 1y ago

Do you ever wonder if it is sending the data to the NSA and that is why it takes so long?

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semisol 1y ago

It’s a shitty processing pipeline

PDF > PostScript (rasterized PDF in PS) > PS again > PPM > some color processing > PCL XL

And the PDF to PS converter + Ghostscript is really slow. And it’s performed sequentially.