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      25th Oct 2004
Whenever I hit the print button, want a print preview, change any settings,
or send a print through, there is about a 10 second delay before the action
takes place. This wasn't a problem before and started with no apparent
changes being made. This is only a problem with one of my networked
printers. I've tried reinstalling the driver.

Thanks for the help.
 
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      27th Oct 2004
Hi there,

Manaully remove the printers and re-install them. PLease see steps at the
end. Have you tried setting the printer up with a genric text only driver and
seeing if the same issue occures? Also have you searched for an updated
driver for your printer?

Steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit and click OK.
2. Delete all the contents of the following registry keys:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\WindowsNT x86\Drivers\Version-2

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\WindowsNT x86\Drivers\Version-3
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers

3. Check the following registry key for third-party monitors. Remove any
non-default monitors:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors

 The default port monitors are:

AppleTalk Printing Devices (When Services for Macintosh is installed)
BJ Language Monitor
Local Port
PJL Language Monitor
Standard TCP/IP Port
USB Monitor
Windows NT Fax Monitor

4. Check the following registry key for third-party print providers. Remove
any non-default print providers:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Providers

 The default print providers are:

Internet Print Provider
LanMan Print Provider

5. Delete the printer driver files:

• Delete all drivers from the
%SystemRoot%\System32\Spool\Drivers\W32x86 folder.

6. Restart Windows.
7. Re-install the printer drivers.
8. Test to see if you are able to print.

Regards,

"ApD" wrote:

> Whenever I hit the print button, want a print preview, change any settings,
> or send a print through, there is about a 10 second delay before the action
> takes place. This wasn't a problem before and started with no apparent
> changes being made. This is only a problem with one of my networked
> printers. I've tried reinstalling the driver.
>
> Thanks for the help.

 
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      27th Oct 2004
Kirtal,

Thanks for your answer. I appreciate you giving your time and knowledge to
help. I manually deleted the driver and reinstalled it and it works great.

Andrew.

"Kirtal Lalla" wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Manaully remove the printers and re-install them. PLease see steps at the
> end. Have you tried setting the printer up with a genric text only driver and
> seeing if the same issue occures? Also have you searched for an updated
> driver for your printer?
>
> Steps:
>
> 1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit and click OK.
> 2. Delete all the contents of the following registry keys:
>
> •
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\WindowsNT x86\Drivers\Version-2
> •
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\WindowsNT x86\Drivers\Version-3
> • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers
>
> 3. Check the following registry key for third-party monitors. Remove any
> non-default monitors:
>
> • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors
>
>  The default port monitors are:
>
> AppleTalk Printing Devices (When Services for Macintosh is installed)
> BJ Language Monitor
> Local Port
> PJL Language Monitor
> Standard TCP/IP Port
> USB Monitor
> Windows NT Fax Monitor
>
> 4. Check the following registry key for third-party print providers. Remove
> any non-default print providers:
>
> • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Providers
>
>  The default print providers are:
>
> Internet Print Provider
> LanMan Print Provider
>
> 5. Delete the printer driver files:
>
> • Delete all drivers from the
> %SystemRoot%\System32\Spool\Drivers\W32x86 folder.
>
> 6. Restart Windows.
> 7. Re-install the printer drivers.
> 8. Test to see if you are able to print.
>
> Regards,
>
> "ApD" wrote:
>
> > Whenever I hit the print button, want a print preview, change any settings,
> > or send a print through, there is about a 10 second delay before the action
> > takes place. This wasn't a problem before and started with no apparent
> > changes being made. This is only a problem with one of my networked
> > printers. I've tried reinstalling the driver.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.

 
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