We're seeing something that's baffling me. We queue up a hundred pages to our locally-attached HP postscript printer, and when the first pages begin printing they print as fast as you'd expect from the printer (12ppm or somesuch), but as the queue grows the pages come out slower and slower (slower than 1ppm at the worst), and then when the queue is shorter again at the end it speeds up again.
The pages are essentially the same; it's not a function of the content of the pages. The behavior is the same whether we connect the printer through the parallel or serial port, so it's not a cable/interface issue. It's a Woody system. It has started doing this in the past month or so; the same hardware/software printed all pages quickly before that, for years. Many thanks for any ideas; it's driving us insane. --Pete
