4100TN Printing Slowly

[MrTBC]

Hi Guys.
I have a 4100TN Laserjet running as a local printer on XP XP2. The printer is quoted as 25PPM but is taking around 1 minute 45 seconds to print 25 pages.
Any ideas for speeding this up please?

Thanks very much.

 

[DansDadUK]

PPM values are usually quoted as '... up to ...", as the actual speed will depend on a number of factors, such as:

Paper size
Simplex or duplex
Complexity of page

The last of these (complexity) tends to have the greatest effect on slowing things down.

If your pages contain complex graphics, the rendering engine has to work much harder to rasterise each page, and may be finding it hard to keep up.

What is the speed like if you print (say) 25 pages from a simple NotePad document?

 

[MrTBC]

Hi DansDadUK
The speed I quoted is for a text only Word doc. The DPI is 600x600. A4 paper. Simplex.

Thanks!

 

[jlasman]

As a test of the engine speed, print a single page document and request 25 copies where the printer is making the copies, not the spooler sending the job 25 times.

Jim Asman

 

[MrTBC]

Hi jlasman - the 25 pages were 25 copies of a single page document.

 

[jlasman]

Do you know if the copies were generated with the PCL command <esc>&l25X or if the printer driver just sent the job 25 times? That's assuming a PCL5 driver.

HP in my experience is pretty in giving realistic PPM specs.

Can you print to a file and have a look at the PCL code?

What driver is being used?

PCL5, PCL6, Postscript?

Try changing to another driver. That sounds like a huge performance hit.

Jim Asman

 

[MrTBC]

It's using PCL5e. The code is 12345X@PJL.
Have just checked the driver and that could well be the problem - it's using a 4050 driver.

 

[DansDadUK]

{esc}%-12345X@PJL... could be the beginning of a print stream in ANY of the previously mentioned languages (PCL5, PCL6 or PostScript); what does the @PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = xx--xx statement indicate?