Print Jobs Pausing for MINUTES for no reason on W2K server?

[Jerry J. Davis]

Help! Help! Our print jobs are being suppressed! Come see the
suppression in inherent in our System!

Seriously, we're banging our heads against the wall over this one. If
you send a long print job, or a string of smaller ones, our Win2K
server will print, then pause for no reason right in the middle of a
job, wait a minute or so, then resume printing. The printer sits
there saying, "Ready!" We're not using jet direct. This is happening
on all HP LasterJets. If we go around the server, we don't have the
problem ... but that's not an option with 200 something workstations.

Has anyone had this kind of problem before? And, if so, did you come
up with a solution that didn't have anything to do with large hammers
or dynamite?

....and, I might add, we are but lowly desktop support technicians, we
have no real control over the server... but we have to prove to the
powers that be that the problem lies in the server, and not the 200
plus workstations. I'd love to hand them a printout from a newsgroup
saying, "Yeah, here's your problem, and here's how to solve it."

Thanks!!

 

[Johnno]

I have heard of this happening with a standard tcpip port, it uses rpc
or remote packet calls that are too small. You can rid yourself of
this by configuring the port to use lpr instead of port 9100, you will
need to check the queue name your printer uses though. Postscript
printers normally have PS as the print queue name, HP uses PASSTHROUGH
etc so you'll need this before you begin.

Bye for now

John