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by nealpressley

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I have a customer setup to use Terminal Services, at first I had trouble printing from remote locally but was able to fix that but now my problem is that when I print something from the Terminal Server to my customers local printer it takes a very long time making it not worth the trouble. iam guessing that using a 56k modem it is spooling across the Internet creating the slow down. I am using an HPDeskjet 845c with thew drivers loaded at the Server and workstation. Does anyone have a solution to speed this up ? any ideas? So far I love Terminal Services and want to setup for all my customers but have this one road block. Also all workstations are wk2pro.
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Neal Pressley
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by jillbean

If you have turned on at the client, compression and bitmap caching, gone to the 640x480 screen size, gone to the lowest color resolution on the screen and are printing in glorious black and white, you have done almost everything there is to do.
HP has a set of "corporate" drivers for that deskjet. The corporate drivers are less resource intensive than the desktop drivers and you may want to try them on both ends.

You may want to be sure you are running the lastest version of rdp 5 on the client side - look for tsac at Microsoft.

But honestly, rdp is a kinda fat protocol and nobody can "fit" color passthrough printing well on a modem connection.

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