Karen,
You do not mention what type of printer, but you might try :
Printer Properties
Ports
UNCLICK Bidirectional Support
I have had two instances when printing that this sped up the process tremendously. It appears that in some cases, the printer uses bidirectional support
to verify back to the software that the intended print job finished as expected. (Along with other info probably) XP may utilize this more than 98 did.
It probably depends on the printer and printer driver, but it may be worth a try.
-Bob
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Client is in Windows 6.5++. We have a program, worked
for years running on a Win98 workstation, that prints between
1200 to 1800 invoices monthly on a 45 ppm laser. They are
printed as individual statements rather than one 1800-page
job. The RBase program zips through 1800 "printing page 1
of 1" messages, returns you back to the menu so you can
continue working in RBase, you see all the jobs spool up in
the network printer queue, and after about 2 hrs they are all
nicely printed out.
Now they want to print from an XP workstation to the same
printer. She says that what happens is the first 25 statements
seem to zip through the "printing page 1 of 1" message really
fast as usual, the n all of a sudden it prints the one page, waits
for it to physically print out, then goes on to the next invoice,
as if the invoices are NOT being spooled. Going to the network
queue, you can see that it's doing only 1 job at a time. Had her
check the Properties of the printer and it is set to spool. So now
she's claiming that RBase 6.5++ is "incompatible" with XP. Her
hardware guy of course wants to hear this, so I doubt I'll get much
help from him in figuring out the printing problem. Any suggestions?
Karen
