Within our organisation we had a similar problem with a then new HP4500
laser printer. The problem was caused by printing large files or in
particular, high resolution pictures.
The problem was solved by upping the server RAM from 64MB to 256MB. We also
changed the network cards and our hub from a straight 10mbs to 10/100mbs.
Regards
DaveS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher J Pollard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 20 March 2001 14:44
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [cc] Is printing such a heavy load?
>
> > To the best of my knowledge LX300 is a dotmatrix printer and has a
>
> That's correct.
>
> > You have not mentioned the workstation loads it is supporting, the OS
> used,
> > the memory type used.
>
> The workstations are all Celeron 466 or 500, with 64MB RAM. All systems
> are running Win98. Most of the printing is from MS Word.
>
>
> > Advice :
> > Don't load every thing on 1 Server because in your senario it may also
> be
> > used as a proxy server.
>
> Well, it's not being used as a proxy server, so rebooting whilst customers
>
> are using the net is possible. Although it's a pain as I also use it for
> timekeeping...
>
> Maybe I should throw some more RAM at it? I'm a firm believer that RAM is
> like money and chocolate. you can't have too much.
>
> Chris
>
>
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