Please help - slow printing

[Jim]

I have 2 XP machines networked with a Linksys router.
When I copy files between machines it is over 10MB, but
within the last three weeks printing across the network
travels at about 4 packets per second - a scanned
document may take an hour to print through the network
(fast locally). The only changes have been Microsoft
updates and I loaded Digital Image Suite on one of the
machines...can anyone help? Is there something specific
to spooled data transport that is differn't than other
traffic?

 

[yellowpike]

Jim
After MS updates I had nothing but trouble with my network HP printer
including "spooler errors".
I removed printer from all machines, uninstalled the HP printer program and
drivers from the "print server" and reinstalled with most recent drivers.
So far so good.

hope this helps
yellowpike

 

[Jim]

Thank you Yellowpike for your response, it is an HP
printer I'm having a problem with. This is also a home
network, so there is not a print server. If I need to I
will remove and reinstall the drivers, but they are old
and it took me a long time to find the right one that
works with XP. But, your solution may be the only one...