Re: Very Slow response of Print Preview in Excel over shared network p

Sporadic reports of problems along these lines have appeared since the SP2
release. At one of my client sites I have also run into this problem with
only a few PC's and a particular network printer (Canon Image Runner) dating
to upgrading them to SP2. The best speculation I have seen about this is
that there is [a subtle bug in SP2 GDI32.DLL, ... that it involves a memory
conflict with certain video drivers]. I saved this in some notes on the
problem from past news discussions. To my knowledge Microsoft is either
unaware of or indifferent to the issue.

Here's an extract from another past news discussion that I had saved. It
didn't work for me, but for what it's worth....

I see a similar problem with SP2. An EPSON Sylus COLOR 880i is shared. The
remote computer sees response times around 1 minute.

I "solved" the problem but don't know why:
The host computer is "Front" at 192.168.1.1
One printer port on the remote computer is:
\\Front\EPSON Stylus COLOR 880
another port is defined as
\\192.168.1.1\EPSON Sytlus COLOR 880

Neither port worked except very slowly as above.
However, if Printer Pooling is enabled it requires that both ports be
selected.
This seems to solve the slowness problem but I think I need to know more
about what's going on.

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"Raymond Lo" <RaymondLo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:53C76485-207A-428C-9140-E89A26038292@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem in printing over a shared network printer. The
> environment is as follows:
> 1. A PC running win 98se is sharing a local laser printer Epson EPL6200L.
> 2. My PC running win xpp (with sp2) is using the shared printer as my
> default printer.
>
> Case of problem 1: When I use Excel (version 2003 with latest patches) to
> preview a file (it is the same case as MS word), I always have to wait for
> over serveral seconds before the preview screen appears. I notice that
> there
> is signals over the network because I saw the little icon flash on the
> bottom
> right of the status bar.
>
> Case of problem 2: Before problem 1 occured, my pc was running winxpp
> sp1,
> there was no problems at all. Recently I got a new computer & it is of
> win
> xpp sp2 and the problem 1 arises again. The windows comes with sp2 & I
> can't remove it. What should I do?
>
> I am not too sure if it is because of the winxpp sp2 !!?? Now, I can't
> get
> ride of the sp2, what can I do for printing?
>
> Thanks for your advise & help.
>
> Raymond
>
>


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