Slow Printer in Windows XP

[Northland]

I am running WinXP Home with a NEC Superscript 870 Laser printer (using a parallel port connection, this printer doesn't use USB). Compared to Win98SE, my printouts run slower than snails!

There is no updated driver for this printer on the NEC site (it says to use the driver that comes with XP, which I am).

Is there a way to juice up the spooler in XP to get it to run at least as fast as it did in SE?

I have fiddled with the "Direct to Printer" option and the "Spooler" options in the advanced properties of the printer setup in Control Panel. Every option runs slowly.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Northland

 

[greg]

HA! I just sold my NEC 870 on ebay when I upgraded to XP. I bought the brother 1440 and haven't looked back. The Brother is twcie the printer ands slightly smaller than the NEC which I see as a stellar unit.

THe problem is the driver. You can use the MS driver and lose the 600 dpi capability or go witht he HP emulator driver and slow to a freakin crawl. Consider ebay. I sold mine for over $200!!! and only had to pay about $50 for my brother.

 

[greg]

Forget fooling with the settings, I called NEC and they basically tol dme to lump it, or use the very limited driver options available.

 

[Northland]

This has been very encouraging!

Anyone else have some thoughts? I just bought a new 3000 page cartridge for this printer and I'm not really interested in dumping this printer just yet.

Northland

 

[greg]

You can use the HP II drivers supplied in XP, but you lose versatility.