[Leaplist] HP1100 under XP slow to print some PDFs

[Kyle Gonzales]

Being that this is a Linux mailing list... Try Linux?

On 11/7/07, Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> I have a HP1100 that's glacially slow to print some PDF files.  I don't know
> what's special about them, but they may take three or three minutes per
> page.  Being a moderate PPM printer, it can otherwise print quite a few
> pages each minute.
>
> Good doesn't turn up much, so I suspect I am searching for the wrong thing.
>
> I suspect a) RAM on printer b) CPU on printer c) Windows XP SP2 print
> spooling d) Windows print drivers
>
> I am considering buying one of those moderately inexpensive print servers
> you plug into the parallel port or USB port of the printer, providing you a
> network-aware printer, so I can spool there.  The Windows print spooler
> reports document sizes from 500K to several MB when printing these PDFs.
>
> Printing at 300DPI does not significant (at all) improve printing
> performance for these files.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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