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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"LVTravel" wrote:

> I originally posted this 6-24 on only the Vista Printer_fax_scan NG with no
> response. Multiposted now to broaden the range of people seeing the post.
> Really need assistance. TIA.
>
> I have a laptop (new HP) with Vista Home Premium SP1 preinstalled, 3 GB RAM,
> 250GB HDD, AMD Turion 64 processor. Using Zone Alarm free as firewall and
> AVG 8 free as antivirus. Know that firewall is not issue since have full
> access to printers (can ping the network connected printers) and all other
> networked computers without problem. I understand that AVG has had a
> printing issue in the past but I totally turned off AVG by uninstalling it
> and this did not clear the issue with printing.
>
> Out of the box I have connected the new laptop to the following printers
> using the latest drivers available from the manufacturers or using Vista's
> built in if the drivers aren't available from manufacturer's web site.
>
> The following are connected through the home network via wireless and work
> flawlessly with 3 laptops running XP Pro (2) and XP Home (1).
> HP 2200DN - B & W Laser (network with Cat5e cable through WAP/Switch)
> OKIDATA 5150 - Color laser (network with Cat5e cable through WAP/Switch)
> Epson 1280 (connected through a Sony XP computer share)
> Epson R260 (also connected through the Sony XP computer)
>
> The last printer is a Canon BJC80 which is connected via a USB to Parallel
> printer cable (Belkin) which works great with no delay on any of the laptops
> running XP.
>
> My problem. When I print to any of the printers with any of the XP machines
> the print job starts immediately and printing is accomplished quickly with
> the queue clearing immediately after the job is done. Whenever I print any
> of the same documents (Word, Publisher, emails (Live Mail), web sites,
> PowerPoint, etc.) to any of the printers using Vista it may take as much as
> an hour to start printing and may not close out the job in the printer queue
> at all or it may take up to another hour for Vista to clear it. Some times
> printing the same job twice the first job prints immediately but the second
> job may take that hour.
>
> I have attempted to play with the settings on the BJC80 (which is what I use
> on the road) and again it will occasionally print quickly but most times it
> takes at least 15 minutes for the print queue to be "loaded" with the job
> (even a one page print from Word with only one word on it.) I have changed
> the settings on the driver to print directly to the printer, rebooted and
> tried to print and this didn't change anything so changed that back (I found
> this works better for this printer under XP and have it set that way on each
> of the XP machines for this printer.)
>
> I haven't found anything on any of the Vista newsgroups that would assist me
> in finding an solution to my problem, so any suggestions to try?
>
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