Slow printing on network

[ednachman]

I have a HP 7350 series printer attached to Computer A. If I use a test page from the "Tool Box" the printer reacts immediately. However, using Computer A or Computer B for a regular print job, the printer is incredibly slow and sometimes to the extent of not printing at all.

 

[billcmh]

Check the spool settings or check for the disk space availabiltiy. Possibly try turning spooling off and say PRINT DIRECT TO PRINTER/

 

[ednachman]

I did as suggested and nothing helped. I then decided that the USB port might be corrupted in some manner and connected the printer to another USB port. That seemed to fix the problem.

 

[ednachman]

The problem is back. Can it be the SP2 to XP Pro that is causing the problem?

 

[bcastner]

This trick has worked wonderuflly for me to speedup network printing, including XP with Service Pack 2, but how universal a speedup trick it proves is beyond my capabilities of testing.

1. Start the Printers and Faxes Wizard. Then click File, Server Properties, Ports

2. Click Add a port, select "Local port", then click New Port

3. Enter the full \\Share_Server\Printer_sharename of the shared Network Printer; e.g. \\Server1\HPLaserjet500

4. Click Next to finish adding the port.

5. Now use the "Add Printer" wizard to add a new Local printer, not a Network printer. The port is going to be the new local port you just added.

Test. On a LAN with new Epson Stylus printers connected with USB to the print server, print times were cut in half or better with this trick.

Best,
Bill Castner

 

[ednachman]

Excellent advise. Thank you. bcastner strikes again with easily understood procedures to solve my problem.