Print problem

[bygeek]

Working on a win2K stand alone machine. Whenever I send a job to the printer, it goes to the queue, but takes about 5 minutes before it starts to print. Using an HP Officejet5110 via USB. Uninstalled software/drivers and reinstalled from fresh d/l from HP website. Tried changing spooler settings. Hooked up printer on an XP machine and it prints fine, so it's not the printer.

Also noticed CPU usage goes to 100%, mainly explorer.exe, when the job goes to the printer. I've scanned using Trend MIcro Sysclean and Spybot.

Any ideas?

 

[danomac]

Some applications can make a print job that can be a couple hundred MB.

Is your computer running with USB 2.0? USB1.1 is only 1.5MB/sec IIRC, and if you have a huge spool file, it will take a while for it to send to the printer...

 

[Blujacket]

USB-port printing does appear somewhat slower than IEEE-1284 Parallel-port printing.

USB 1.1 is 12Mbps [subchannel of 1.5Mbps, same as USB 1.0], USB 2.0 is up to 480Mbps, and Firewire/IEEE-1394 is 400Mbps.

http://www.activewin.com/faq/usb.shtml

http://www.usbman.com

 

[bygeek]

Solved the problem by changing to a driver that's native to Win2k - a different OfficeJet model. Now it prints right away like it's supposed to.