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by dalejrfan 2 views

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I have 3 Windows 2000 HP Pavilion's printing to a shared HP deskjet 1600c printer connected locally to an HP Pavilion running Windows ME. Whenever a print job is sent to the 1600c from one of the Win2000 machines, it sometimes takes a long time before it actually starts printing. The files that are being printed are not large and do not contain graphics. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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by parbo

How does it work if you connect the printer to a W2k station? W2k should be able to handle this better.

by dalejrfan

Don't know yet. The machine running Windows ME needs to be running Windows ME. There is software that's running on there that doesn't run under Windows 2000.

by jwilczyn

Try to change a driver for this printer. If it takes a long time - don't use PostScript driver. You can use PCL 5e or 6.

by erikbutler

check your spooler properties under the advanced menu of the printer. You might have the start priting after last page is spooled checked

by ebob

I tried using a WinME as a print server and had exactly what you describe - takes forever to actually print! I tried lots of combinations, including the types of suggestions here. The best solution for my situation was to NOT use WinME as a print server.

I know this isn't the answer you were looking for, however it was the best answer for my situation.

In fact, what I eventually did was to implement an Asante FR3400LC which I was going to do in any case, as a firewall for my DSL connection. This box includes a print server so I don't have to have a PC running all the time.

by dalejrfan

WinME is great as a standalone OS, but once you try to network it, it just causes all sorts of problems. Thanks for the tip. I'll more than likely upgrade it to Win2000 at some point. I was kinda hoping I wouldn't have too, but it looks like that's what I'm gonna have to do.

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