Slow Printing

[FrankSaucedo]

I have a small ethernet network set up at work. It is used for file sharing and printer sharing. File sharing works great, but I have always experienced slow printing.

Is it normal for 5MB print job to take 2 minutes to get to my printer? Yes, 2 minutes for it to transmit, before anything is printed. I am printing simple cad drawings to my HP5000 w/ a Jet Direct 600N.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Here are the specs:

Windows 2000
100Mbit Ethernet Network
Jet Direct 600N Card on HP Laserjet 5000
Printing to 'Standard TCP/IP port" "IP_192.168.1.41"
Port is configured as follows:
Protocol: RAW
Port Number: 9100
LPR not enabled
SNMP Status Enables
Community name: public
SNMP Device Index: 1
Printer is configured as follows:
Printer Memory: 36 MBytes
I/O Buffering: 100K bytes allocated of 32700K bytes available
Resource Saving: 0K bytes allocated of 29600K bytes available
Jet Direct Configuration
Port Select: RJ45
Port Config: 100TX FULL

 

[vailr]

Sounds about right (2 minutes) for printing a 5 MB file over ethernet.
But: how can "simple cad drawings" require 5 MB? Try reducing the dpi (dots per inch) setting (to maybe a 200 to 300 dpi .jpg file) using a photo editor. That should speed up the printing.