Print lag in XP is major pain

[amartureo]

Our office is running a program written in DOS foxpro. All our Windows 98 computers, with SPOOL MS-DOS PRINT JOBS deactivated, print immediately in response to an employee hitting the print button.

We recently added a few Windows XP Pro computers to our network and the lag between print request and actual printing is variable and totally unacceptable. The ADVANCED tab on the printers allows us to specify PRINT DIRECTLY TO PRINTER, but we still end up waiting about 30 seconds (sometimes a full minute) before printing starts.

How can we speed things up?

 

[DSummZZZ]

After printing, try this:
SET PRINT TO
SET PRINT TO

Yes, twice. See if that helps.


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[fitedgar]

Try this: faq182-4106

EMC