RE: Slow Printing

2010-07-27 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
n I'm back in town if you don't see it. -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 11:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Slow Printing Thanks Ben for some great ideas. Based on your tests, spooling is very fast. P

Re: Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > Is there anything you lose by having it use the HP Driver longer term? The Konica C353 is a copy machine; they often have features such as duplexing, collating, offset-stacking, sorting, stapling, fax, shoe shine, etc., etc., that an HP L

Re: Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Shawn Everett wrote: > Printing to an "HP Laserjet 4" printer is pretty fast.  3-4 seconds. That very strongly suggests it is their driver. Seek support from the vendor. I've seen this before when a print driver contained code to talk to the printer (to get i

Re: Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Andrew S. Baker
our tests, spooling is very fast. Printing is slow. > > Printing to a local port c:\test.prn is also very fast. > > Printing to an "HP Laserjet 4" printer is pretty fast. 3-4 seconds. > > The Konica is configured to use a Standard TCP/IP port. Bidirectional > s

Re: Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Shawn Everett
Thanks Ben for some great ideas. Based on your tests, spooling is very fast. Printing is slow. Printing to a local port c:\test.prn is also very fast. Printing to an "HP Laserjet 4" printer is pretty fast. 3-4 seconds. The Konica is configured to use a Standard TCP/IP port. Bid

Re: Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Ben Scott wrote: >  I believe all the Konica printers speak PCL.  Add the driver for an > old HP printer (I'm fond of the LaserJet 4). P.S.: I mean the driver Microsoft ships with Windows, not something from HP's website or disc. You can add drivers by opening the

Re: Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Don Kuhlman
;s happening at a low level. You could do a test to the Konica and then to the Lexmark and try to see if there are any big differences in response time, packets, etc.   - Original Message From: Shawn Everett To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tue, July 6, 2010 12:34:49 PM Subject: Re

Re: Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Shawn Everett wrote: > I have a Konica Minolta C353 that does not print quickly. Pause the print queue and print a job. See if it's slow to spool or if that goes fast. Take a look at the size of the spool file(s). Then unpause the queue and see how fast that g

Re: Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Shawn Everett
ement > page that shows it's stats and settings? > Anything showing up in the event vwr on the server relating to the Konica? > > Just a few quick things to look at... > > >   > > > > > From: Candee Vaglica > To: NT System

Re: Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Don Kuhlman
s and settings? Anything showing up in the event vwr on the server relating to the Konica? Just a few quick things to look at...   From: Candee Vaglica To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tue, July 6, 2010 11:48:21 AM Subject: Re: Slow Printing Try setting the

Re: Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Cameron
I had the same issues with Canon printers. What we ended up doing what changing the port protocol to LPR and using the default queue name of LP with LPR Byte Counting Enabled. It actually made a HUGE difference with our situation. Cheers, Cameron On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Candee Vaglica w

Re: Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Candee Vaglica
Try setting the ports manually. Is it possible to try connecting the printer on the same switch as the server? I had a problem with a Xerox that drove me nuts - until we ran the cable to the main switch. On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Shawn Everett wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a newly installed

Slow Printing

2010-07-06 Thread Shawn Everett
Hi All, I have a newly installed Windows 2003 R2 domain controller. There are three locally configured network printers set up on it. The two Lexmark printers print just fine without issues. I have a Konica Minolta C353 that does not print quickly. Printing something as simple as a Windows tes