Network Printing Brutally Slow

I am printing on a home network, the clients being laptops running Vista
Ultimate 32, and the "print server" still running XP Professional on
SP2. I set up an HP AIO 8500 on the network, but printing to it from the
clients is painfully slow - 20 minutes for a single three page PDF?

Part of me thinks the print protocol written by Microsoft is the
stupidest protocol ever written - I've always felt that network printing
was not really distributed - but something else seems to be at play this
time that makes it slower and more pitiful than ever.

Is printing from Vista clients to a shared XP print resource just not a
good thing, or is there something else I could set on either end that
would make this go better? Thanks.


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John James
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I have both winxp & vista PC's on the network, all connected via router that
features a printer server and have had no such issues.
Recently added a printer to one PC that connects via a seperate wireless
print server, also no issues
All are HP printers.
It would appear something is wrong with your setup

"John James" <> wrote in
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>
> I am printing on a home network, the clients being laptops running Vista
> Ultimate 32, and the "print server" still running XP Professional on
> SP2. I set up an HP AIO 8500 on the network, but printing to it from the
> clients is painfully slow - 20 minutes for a single three page PDF?
>
> Part of me thinks the print protocol written by Microsoft is the
> stupidest protocol ever written - I've always felt that network printing
> was not really distributed - but something else seems to be at play this
> time that makes it slower and more pitiful than ever.
>
> Is printing from Vista clients to a shared XP print resource just not a
> good thing, or is there something else I could set on either end that
> would make this go better? Thanks.
>
>
> --
> John James
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>