OT – Printer Help?

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Dave
Sep 15, 2004
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Greetings!
This is OT, but after more than two weeks with no answer in the printer NGs, it was suggested that a member here might be able to offer some help. Please accept my apology for the OT post.

I have two printers connected through a Model F5U224, 4 port, Belkin, USB
2.0 Hub, to the USB 2.0 port on my PC.
Printer 1: HP PSC 1210.
Printer 2: Canon i560s.
Recently the HP 1210 has begun to take longer for a print job to begin printing.
The Cannon i560s has not been affected at all, and all types of print jobs, (Web pages, spreadsheet, documents, photos, text & graphic scans), spool up and begin printing immediately, usually within 1-2 seconds. At first I thought it might be related to the recent installation of AV software, but dismissed that idea because the slowdown is only with the HP printer.

I just did a test print to both printers, black only, this message printed from MS Word 2000. Both printers were set to highest quality printing in their software.
HP: 48 seconds from "print" to complete.
Canon: 26 " " " " "

System Info:
Compaq Presario S3200NX
2.0 Ghz
WIN XP Home SP1
512 MB RAM

Any / all suggestions and trouble-shooting tips are appreciated!

TIA!

— Dave

Master Retouching Hair

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A7
aka 717
Sep 15, 2004
I’ve seen this happen when a new application was installed – for whatever reason it wrote into the drivers. I recommend uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers for the printer that has slowed down. remember to shut the machine off between uninstall and reinstall.

"Dave" wrote in message
Greetings!
This is OT, but after more than two weeks with no answer in the printer
NGs,
it was suggested that a member here might be able to offer some help. Please accept my apology for the OT post.

I have two printers connected through a Model F5U224, 4 port, Belkin, USB
2.0 Hub, to the USB 2.0 port on my PC.
Printer 1: HP PSC 1210.
Printer 2: Canon i560s.
Recently the HP 1210 has begun to take longer for a print job to begin printing.
The Cannon i560s has not been affected at all, and all types of print
jobs,
(Web pages, spreadsheet, documents, photos, text & graphic scans), spool
up
and begin printing immediately, usually within 1-2 seconds. At first I thought it might be related to the recent installation of AV software, but dismissed that idea because the slowdown is only with the HP printer.

I just did a test print to both printers, black only, this message printed from MS Word 2000. Both printers were set to highest quality printing in their software.
HP: 48 seconds from "print" to complete.
Canon: 26 " " " " "
System Info:
Compaq Presario S3200NX
2.0 Ghz
WIN XP Home SP1
512 MB RAM

Any / all suggestions and trouble-shooting tips are appreciated!
TIA!

— Dave

Master Retouching Hair

Learn how to rescue details, remove flyaways, add volume, and enhance the definition of hair in any photo. We break down every tool and technique in Photoshop to get picture-perfect hair, every time.

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