Network Printing Very Slow

[sharper]

I am using an HP 2200 printer on my home network - 3 PCs all running XP
Home.
The printer was networked and working fine until I had to change things
about a bit at home. I was temporaliy using the HP as a local USB printer
for a few days whilst I was getting the ethernet cabling sorted to my new
office. Once that was finished I reconnected it as a network printer again.

Problem is that now printing is taking 10-20 mins, even though I can access
the web-based admin interface on the printer no problem. I have noticed
though that after printing svchost service is hogging memory resources until
the print job completes.

Computer is 2.8GHx Celeron with 896Mb RAM, so RAM shouldn't be an issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

One common error I see is the use of a proxy, (kind of 'by accident' while
adjusting other things) It couldn't hurt to take a look at IE, Tools menu,
Options, Connection tab, "Lan Settings" button.

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[sharper]

Thanks. As it happens I do use a proxy server to access the internet from
this computer, however I have set the LAN options to bypass the proxy server
for local addresses, which I have specified in the form 192.168.0.* as all
my local IP addresses fall in that range.

Unfortunately that doesn't help. My instinct is that the problem has to do
with TCP/IP settings.

Looking forward to some help please.

 

[ihammerhands2000]

is the printer still hooked up to your computer with USB? Cause it sounds
like all of your computers are seeing the printer under your computer, not
your routers.