On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Shawn Everett <[email protected]> wrote: > Printing to an "HP Laserjet 4" printer is pretty fast. 3-4 seconds.
That very strongly suggests it is their driver. Seek support from the vendor. I've seen this before when a print driver contained code to talk to the printer (to get ink status, for example), and that was failing for whatever reason, and the driver didn't handle failure well. Some drivers just don't expect to ever be used on with a network print spooler. (I wouldn't think even Konica would be *that* dumb, but you never know.) On the other hand, some drivers are just bloated and slow. (HP, I'm looking at you.) You may want to explore some of the "universal printer driver" offerings from various vendors. As the name implies, they are drivers designed to be flexible enough to work with any printer, regardless of brand or model. We've had moderately good luck with Lexmark's universal PCL XL (PCL 6) driver, although we haven't tried it with our old Konica machines. I know Xerox and HP also have universal offerings. > Network port on the Cisco switch and the Konica are set to > Auto Negotiate. Given that the HP LJ driver is working fine, that almost certainly rules out a network problem. (I suppose it's possible the Konica driver is trying to do something via network, and the network is broken, and so the Konica driver fails, while the HP driver isn't as sophisticated so never notices the network problem. But that's a real stretch. Regardless of driver, the spooler uses TCP to talk to the printer, and if the network was broken TCP is likely to behave consistently, even with a less sophisticated driver.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
