Printing issue

[Pole Hill]

I'm running XP Home edition with SG3 installed. When I print from the web it
takes approximately 10 seconds for the print dialog box to appear after
selecting Ctrl P and then another 30 seconds before the print job reaches the
printer. I'm using a couple different HP printers (Laserjet 1100 and 1200)
but it does not seem to make much differnece. Printing is a little faster if
I'm printing from another application such as Word or Notepad. But all in
all it seems to me that my printing is a little on the slow side. I'm
running Internet Explorer 7 and have 384MB of RAM with over 50% of free space
on my 40GB hard drive.

 

[Chuck]

There are several factors that can slow things down.
Among them:
Using a USB 1.0 port instead of USB 2
384MB of RAM (This is a bit of an odd figure, unless the video system uses
system ram instead of dedicated video memory)
500Meg or 1Gig of RAM usually speeds things up a bit.
There is a formatting operation that takes place to convert the IE web based
html document to a printer ready document. This can take a bit of time.
You may find that specific settings such as RAW in the printer driver affect
speed for better or worse.