Re: Help with slow print performace

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:52:58 -0800

Clayton wrote:

> Hi,
> I am at a lost to figure this one out.
>
> I have installed a Printer on a computer locally and have shared the
> printer on the network for other computers to print to it.
> I have 12 workstations using this printer on the network and 5 of
> these computers seem to be very slow at bringing up the the print
> dialogue box when you select File/Print. also very slow when you open
> a .pdf, .doc and just selecting the print icon.
>
> I have contacted Brother about the printer and they said to reinstall
> the drivers on the computer that the printer is connected to and add
> the printer again to the workstations which I have done and it's still
> the same.
>
> 1 of the 5 computers that were having problems came right after I
> remove the network printer from that computer and added it again, but
> doing this to the others did not work.
>
> What else I did on one troubled computer was delete the network
> printer and added another network printer from another computer with a
> printer connected to it and it was fine.
>
> Some work ok and some don't so I am at a lost, all workstations are
> identical as in installation and configuration of Windows XP.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Clayton

You are always going to have problems trying to share a locally
connected printer among that many workstations. Either get a network
printer and connect it directly via ethernet or buy a print server and
connect the printer to the network that way. In addition, you didn't
say whether you are using Pro or Home, but you may also be running into
the concurrent connections limitation. Making the printer connect to
the network instead of locally will solve this.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314882 - Inbound connections limit in
XP

concurrent connections:

10 for XP Pro/Tablet/MCE
5 for XP Home
49 for SBS 2000
74 for SBS 2003
Unlimited for full Server O/Ses

Malke 

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