Network Printer Slow

[Clayton]

Hi,
I am at a lost to figure this one out.

I have installed a Printer on a computer locally and have shared the printer on
the network for other computers to print to it.
I have 12 workstations using this printer on the network and 5 of these
computers seem to be very slow at bringing up the the print dialogue box when
you select File/Print. also very slow when you open a .pdf, .doc and just
selecting the print icon.

I have contacted Brother about the printer and they said to reinstall the
drivers on the computer that the printer is connected to and add the printer
again to the workstations which I have done and it's still the same.

1 of the 5 computers that were having problems came right after I remove the
network printer from that computer and added it again, but doing this to the
others did not work.

What else I did on one troubled computer was delete the network printer and
added another network printer from another computer with a printer connected to
it and it was fine.

Some work ok and some don't so I am at a lost, all workstations are identical as
in installation and configuration of Windows XP.

Thanks for any help

Clayton

 

[Jetro]

Do you have any file shares on the print server box?

 

[Clayton]

Yes I do, only because user can goto the print server and use the scanner
attached to it to scan photo's and send them to their computers





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[Jetro]

Shut down/disconnect 10 workstations and test/fix printing.