NT Printing

Sounds like you have so little RAM for a print server. You need to a least treble the memory as spooling is memory intensive.

Alternatively have printers Qs which are for off peak jobs and users should send their big non urgent jobs only to thoseprinters and then they would kick off early in the evening for example.

Ensure you also a lot of virtual memory using hard disk - if hard disk space is limited your spooling will come to a crawl at certain times.

good luck

I had the same problem with just 2 printers. Eventually I uninstalled Jetdirect and changed over to NT LPR using TCP/IP. Works fine for me.

I would set up a separate print server. You are overloading the one you have.

Probably need more RAM but use Performance monitor to check you RAM usage as well as CPU utilization during printing operations. Another thing that could affect printing although less likely is network utilization. You can track that in performance monitor as well. If you have all your clients and printers on a shared network it could be a problem. A switch would help in that scenario.

I have over a dozen printers on a server with 256MB RAM using Jetdirect and everything owrks fine.

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