Network printer - S-L-O-W

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Hi all,

I have a network at home with a bunch of PCs and laptops, mostly running XP
x86. They're all setup to use a printer through my LAN, which is physically
hooked up to one of the machines and shared.

It just so happens that my one XP x64 machine is incredibly slow whenever it
tries to do any sort of printer access. Just navigating through any
application's print options can take 4-5 minutes for each mouse click. The
same operations performed from other machines on my network are fine.

I have no trouble printing--everything's fine and there's no error or
warning logged anywhere. It's just that things are very slow, like the
system is trying to do some massive network search for each printer
operation and eventually just timing out.

I know this isn't much to go by, but what are the obvious things I should be
looking for?
 
Re: Network printer - S-L-O-W

What make and model printer? Is the printer attached to a print server or
to an XP PC.... and if the PC, LPT or USB?
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"Homer J. Simpson" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I have a network at home with a bunch of PCs and laptops, mostly running
> XP x86. They're all setup to use a printer through my LAN, which is
> physically hooked up to one of the machines and shared.
>
> It just so happens that my one XP x64 machine is incredibly slow whenever
> it tries to do any sort of printer access. Just navigating through any
> application's print options can take 4-5 minutes for each mouse click.
> The same operations performed from other machines on my network are fine.
>
> I have no trouble printing--everything's fine and there's no error or
> warning logged anywhere. It's just that things are very slow, like the
> system is trying to do some massive network search for each printer
> operation and eventually just timing out.
>
> I know this isn't much to go by, but what are the obvious things I should
> be looking for?
>
 
Re: Network printer - S-L-O-W

> What make and model printer? Is the printer attached to a print server or
> to an XP PC.... and if the PC, LPT or USB?

Actually, there's two printers. My bad for not pointing it out.

The first is an HP LaserJet 4350 connected to a laptop (running XP Pro x86)
through its parallel port. The other printer is an HP PhotoSmart 7150,
connected to that same laptop through USB.

Other machines can access either printer without any delay. Only the x64
machine is having those slowdown symptoms.

Actually, I just double-checked--the x64 machine is only set up to print to
the laser printer--the other one isn't set up at all. If I remember
correctly I couldn't find 64-bit drivers for the 7150.

The laptop to which both printers are physically connected is hooked up
wirelessly to my router (a Linksys WRT54G). All other PCs in my LAN are
wired to the router.
 
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