Re: spooling problem

Check the CPU usage in task manager when you are sending the job.

Also how fast are file transfers from the client machine? This could be
network related (nic, transports installed, firewall settings)

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"Steve" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes it's a network connection (TCP/IP). The start printing after last
page option does work in that there is no re-start etc. but because of
how large the image is, it can take an extremely long time to spool the
file before it begins printing. Plus on other computers this doesn't
happen.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

Steve



"Alan Morris [MSFT]" <alanmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'll assume this is a device with a network card. If you have this setup
to an LPT port you can configure the LPT timeout value to 9999



change the Advanced printer property to Start printing after the last
page has spooled.

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"Steve" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

When printing a file on one computer I get a timeout error as the data
going to the printer is slow. In most other computers the data
continues to the printer and the printer starts printing again and the
message goes away. But in this one computer. The spooler automatically
restarts the print job (while it continues the spooling) which causes
the printer to kick out what ever it has already printed and start
printing the job from scratch. This happens a couple of times until the
full job gets spooled so then it prints the full image. This is a very
large image about 36" by 8' and is very costly as a lot of expensive
paper is getting wasted. The computer is using windows 2000 and the
printer is an Epson 9800. As I said a timeout message isn't unusual for
printing such a large image in a very high resolution, but as the
spooling continues usually it jut continues to print after a short
delay, but in this case there seems to be a 'if timeout restart' option.
I've looked through all the printer options and spooler options in
windows and can't see possible option is. If anyone knows what setting I
need to change I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Steve







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