Re: Snail pace printing through wireless link
- From: "Lisa K" <pitasmom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 11:25:41 -0400
On our office network, I found that only some computers will run into the
slow printing problem and the pages seem to pause between each one being
printed. Turned out it had to do with an upgraded driver and the system
just plain not liking it. When I rolled back the driver to a PCL5 or PCL5e,
the documents printed out just fine and quickly. When I had it as a PCL6,
it was snail paced.
Just a thought to check different drivers for the printer.
"muddy" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is your chance to solve our mystery where all others have failed
We have asked for advice on about five user groups and nobody seems to
know
the answer!
We have three PCs and a laptop on a wireless network all running Windows
XP
Home Edition.
We have D-Link DWL G520+ PCI Adapters on the PCs and a Linksys USB adapter
on the laptop. They communicate through a Linksys Broadband Gateway.
Previously there was a dial up connection with a D-Link Wireless Access
Point. At that time we had PC1 and the laptop running Windows XP HE and
PC2
and PC3 running Windows 98SE.
We had great problems with the link breaking down from PCs 2 and 3 both to
the internet and to the printer (Epson R200) which is connected to PC1 by
USB.
Our supplier told us that the PCs were old and worn out and if they were
upgraded and running XP everything would be fine.
We eventually succumbed and we now have new machines so everything is on
Windows XP HE.
Everything is fine apart from........... being able to print from PC2.
Small documents - say, a few lines of a Word doc or a small email print
out
OK but if it is something bigger then it takes forever. For example
printing
a 165kB PDF file can take over 45 minutes. The printer dialogue box showed
the status as Printing...Spooling and the size as anything up to about 9mB
before it
printed out. That's if you are lucky - sometimes it will not print at all.
It
makes no difference which program you are using.
However, if you open the same document via the wireless link in PC1 or the
other machines and print from there it will print within seconds.
PC 1, PC2 and PC3 are about eight feet apart (on apexes of a triangle) and
the Linksys Gateway is about six feet above PC2. The laptop works
effectively
up to 30 feet away through 2 feet thick stone walls.
This has now gone on for months and I cannot get any sense anywhere - the
most Iget is people say its a Printer Spooling problem but cannot offer
any
real help.
Can somebody help please?
--
Simple Swansea Jack
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