Vista - Odd Printer sharing issues

Hi all, first post here and hopefully someone can see what Im missing here, coz its driving me nuts!!!

Ok here is the scenario. I have my desktop PC installed with Windows Vista Ultimate Ed (32 bit). This PC is hard wired into my WRT54G (tomato firmware) router. Connect to this PC I have an Epson CX5000 printer that is shared on the network. My shareing is password protected and the user who needs to connect to my shares is set up on Vista also.

The other PC is a Laptop with Vista Home Premium (32 bit) installed. The laptop connects and accesses all shares fine (both read and write) and sees my Printer fine. I have set this printer up on the laptop and all seems ok.

Until that is I print from applications on the laptop.
When I send a print job from say Word, it takes over 5 mins to actually start the printer and print. During this time Word goes into (not responding) and will stay that way until the print job is complete. Its not just word either, tried wordpad, Notepad, IE, and they all take upto 5 mins to print a single page!.

I have checked the event logs on my main PC and I dont see anything untoward. The computer connects with the right credentials and disconnects cleanly. It just takes an age to print a page. This is driving my wife nuts (who is the user of the Laptop) as her PC basically becomes unresponsive while it does a simple print job.

Im totally running out of ideas, I have disabled Firewalls, Password protected sharing etc, etc and it still does it. I have moved the Laptop so its right next to the Router and it still does it (so its not a wirless signal issue).

Copying files is fine to and from the PC's is nice and fast no slow downs etc...

Im tearing out whats remainging of my very thin hair here.... any ideas???

Does it matter the SIZE of the print job? SOunds like a printer spool
setting, as in it is spooling the entire print job before printing. Might
check into those settings and see if that does it. I know I can send a print
job to a printer on my sons computer, and even with the printer turned off
to start, the print job starts printing in about 30 - 40 seconds. Other than
that, I am not sure.


"Cythrawl" <Cythrawl.2p1u4f@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> Hi all, first post here and hopefully someone can see what Im missing
> here, coz its driving me nuts!!!
>
> Ok here is the scenario. I have my desktop PC installed with Windows
> Vista Ultimate Ed (32 bit). This PC is hard wired into my WRT54G
> (tomato firmware) router. Connect to this PC I have an Epson CX5000
> printer that is shared on the network. My shareing is password
> protected and the user who needs to connect to my shares is set up on
> Vista also.
>
> The other PC is a Laptop with Vista Home Premium (32 bit) installed.
> The laptop connects and accesses all shares fine (both read and write)
> and sees my Printer fine. I have set this printer up on the laptop and
> all seems ok.
>
> Until that is I print from applications on the laptop.
> When I send a print job from say Word, it takes over 5 mins to actually
> start the printer and print. During this time Word goes into (not
> responding) and will stay that way until the print job is complete. Its
> not just word either, tried wordpad, Notepad, IE, and they all take upto
> 5 mins to print a single page!.
>
> I have checked the event logs on my main PC and I dont see anything
> untoward. The computer connects with the right credentials and
> disconnects cleanly. It just takes an age to print a page. This is
> driving my wife nuts (who is the user of the Laptop) as her PC
> basically becomes unresponsive while it does a simple print job.
>
> Im totally running out of ideas, I have disabled Firewalls, Password
> protected sharing etc, etc and it still does it. I have moved the
> Laptop so its right next to the Router and it still does it (so its not
> a wirless signal issue).
>
> Copying files is fine to and from the PC's is nice and fast no slow
> downs etc...
>
> Im tearing out whats remainging of my very thin hair here.... any
> ideas???
>
>
> --
> Cythrawl


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I think it matters on the size of the doc/pdf etc.. file. As long as the printer prints, network settings shouldn't be of any concern. The more pages there are to print, the longer the printer will take to start the printing process.

The "Not responding" error is strange though..