[windows2000] Re: Printer issues

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:22:16 +0200

Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms <> scribbled on Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:47 PM:

That was simple. I'll look into this and change as appropriate. Thx!



> Well if you set the whole job to spool it takes longer and gives the user
> that perception.  Also if you are on a server and have a slow drive acess
> on the print server (which most people do cause they use low end machines
> as print servers) it will take longer to print as the job gets copied
> completely to the drive, sent to the printer and then taking the time to
> clear it meanwhile 5 other people are sending jobs and the drive is
> thrashing.      
> 
> Jim Kenzig
> Blog: http://www.techblink.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote: 
> 
> 
>       Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms <> scribbled on Thursday, August 28, 2008
2:54
> PM: 
> 
> 
>       > Also on the advanded properties tab of the printe try setting the
>       > spool section to start printing immediately if it isn't set that
way.
> 
> 
>       Why is that actually?? I've seen that sometimes activating this
feature
>       helps with some problems and sometimes it works better to not having
it
>       enabled at all.
> 
>       Currently all our network printers are connected to a printer server
with
>       the settings set to spool first, then print.
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