epson stylus sx215 slow print from firefox

[lauwerier]

I am using the general driver to get my new epson stylus sx215 printing (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1486816). This is working acceptable (still noisy), except for printing from Firefox: the print is OK but it takes much londer than printing the same contents from OpenOffice.org (copied via the clipboard). 1 page takes more than a minute.

(BTW Epson does not give linux support, altough the driver had been downloaded via the link found on www.epson.com to http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/news/id000804.php)

I have reported this also to the forum at http://avasys.jp

[lauwerier]

Re: epson stylus sx215 slow print from firefox

Printing mail from Thunderbird is also slow. This is not related to the mime type, because even email with "text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"" is printing extremely slow.

Any idea why printing from Firefox and Thunderbird can be much slower than printing via OpenOffice.org or other programs.

[I will post another problem related to printing a PDF form Adobe Acrobat Reader on this printer]

If I cannot solve this, I will have to buy another printer soon.