Canon i960 slow spooling

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I just got the i960 printer from Canon recently. It works quite well on
photos and text. However, there is one thing I noticed which is kind of
odd.

After the printer is turned on, the first time I print, the job gets
spooled and the printer starts printing almost instaniously. However,
all subsequent printing take quite a long time for the job to reach the
printer. I can see the job in the printer queue, but the page only comes
out say after 5 minutes that it's been inte printer queue. I don't know
why this is happening, it happens with photos, text, and whatever I try
to print. I'm using direct high-speed USB 2.0 connections between my
computer and printer. I tried it with both the preview option inside the
printer properties on or off, and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
And oh, if the preview is on, then the preview now takes a long time to
show up after the very first time, then after I click on Start Printing
at the preview dialog, the printer then prints almost immediately.

Anyone have similar experience?

Thanks.
 
YNot said:
I just got the i960 printer from Canon recently. It works quite well on
photos and text. However, there is one thing I noticed which is kind of
odd.

After the printer is turned on, the first time I print, the job gets
spooled and the printer starts printing almost instaniously. However,
all subsequent printing take quite a long time for the job to reach the
printer. I can see the job in the printer queue, but the page only comes
out say after 5 minutes that it's been inte printer queue. I don't know
why this is happening, it happens with photos, text, and whatever I try
to print. I'm using direct high-speed USB 2.0 connections between my
computer and printer. I tried it with both the preview option inside the
printer properties on or off, and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
And oh, if the preview is on, then the preview now takes a long time to
show up after the very first time, then after I click on Start Printing
at the preview dialog, the printer then prints almost immediately.

Anyone have similar experience?
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You did not say what operating system or any other info on your PC but this
sounds resource related in that your PC is taking time to spool and send the
data. Too many open background applications or attempting to print a very
large (KB) file by chance???
 
You did not say what operating system or any other info on your PC but
this sounds resource related in that your PC is taking time to spool
and send the data. Too many open background applications or attempting
to print a very large (KB) file by chance???
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Hi. Thanks for your response. I'm running win XP pro on a AMD 1900+
machine, with about 510 megs of RAM. I also thought this may be
memory/resource related, but found that even if the app (say Word or
Acrobat reader) is the only one running, print spooling is still very
slow.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
 
YNot said:
Hi. Thanks for your response. I'm running win XP pro on a AMD 1900+
machine, with about 510 megs of RAM. I also thought this may be
memory/resource related, but found that even if the app (say Word or
Acrobat reader) is the only one running, print spooling is still very
slow.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
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I had spooling problems on an older printer. It turned out it was a bad
cable so communication between my PC and printer were degraded. Try
switching to a difference USB cable.

Also try using Task Manager when printing (right-click on task bar and
select Task Manager from the popup menu). Under the Processes tab, sort the
columns by CPU usage. With this dialog open, try printing and see if other
applications are hogging resources at the same time. If can't recognize a
resource in the list, try typing it into google.

Lux
 
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