I have an HP4550 Laser printer connected to a Win98SE computer. When I print from an XPpro computer on the network, printing is very slow, sometimes so slow that I have to end the task form the tasklist. Other computers (both XP and 98) have no problems.
Even opening documents takes a very long time. On a few occasions without my doing anything the problem seemed to disappear, only to re-appear the next day. When I checked the Tasklist all the processes running were the same in both cases ie when printing was fast and when it was slow. The total memory used is always less than the memory installed – 256MB. Could it still be a memory problem? We recently got DSL (previously had a dial-up internet connection). This may have nothing to do with it, I just mentioned it because the problem first appeared on the same day the we got the DSL router set up.
Also, although the DSL router is connected to the LAN, no one else can get access to the Internet by using a browser. I believe the TCP/IP properties are configured correctly, and the other computers can access the Internet since their anti-virus program has been updating regularly.
My main problem though is the slow printing.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.