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| | Printing takes forever Hi all, got a problem that I hope someone can help me with. I'm running Vista Home Premium and have just installed a Canon LBP5000 Colour Laser. It works okay but printing anything takes forever... A colour picture can take up to 5mins to print and a simple paragraph in black on a single sheet will take 2 to 3 minutes. I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling the printer software/drives but no difference. This printer was on an XP machine and when printing from that it was as good as gold. I tried sharing it off the XP machine to the Vista machine but got the same result... slow as a wet week! Has anybody got any ideas? The way things stand the Canon is virtually unusable. Thanks. Grant -- Grant Turri-Petrie |
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| | RE: Printing takes forever I have this exact same issue with My Okidata B4100 laser printer. The printer works great in XP - even running XP using Virtual PC on my Vista computer produces better results. I've contacted Okidata and they have no solutions so I can only think that it's a Vista issue. "Grant" wrote: Quote: > Hi all, got a problem that I hope someone can help me with. I'm running Vista > Home Premium and have just installed a Canon LBP5000 Colour Laser. It works > okay but printing anything takes forever... A colour picture can take up to > 5mins to print and a simple paragraph in black on a single sheet will take 2 > to 3 minutes. I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling the printer > software/drives but no difference. This printer was on an XP machine and when > printing from that it was as good as gold. I tried sharing it off the XP > machine to the Vista machine but got the same result... slow as a wet week! > Has anybody got any ideas? The way things stand the Canon is virtually > unusable. Thanks. > Grant > -- > Grant Turri-Petrie |
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| | Re: Printing takes forever You'll probably need to open the firewall for the Canon software. There are a couple other posts on this. You can disable the Firewall and verify that is the issue. -- Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1 This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Grant" <Grant@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:58E58FAD-0802-4F0A-ACC9-55053F7FC4BE@xxxxxx Quote: > Hi all, got a problem that I hope someone can help me with. I'm running > Vista > Home Premium and have just installed a Canon LBP5000 Colour Laser. It > works > okay but printing anything takes forever... A colour picture can take up > to > 5mins to print and a simple paragraph in black on a single sheet will take > 2 > to 3 minutes. I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling the printer > software/drives but no difference. This printer was on an XP machine and > when > printing from that it was as good as gold. I tried sharing it off the XP > machine to the Vista machine but got the same result... slow as a wet > week! > Has anybody got any ideas? The way things stand the Canon is virtually > unusable. Thanks. > Grant > -- > Grant Turri-Petrie |
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| | Re: Printing takes forever It does seem that disabling the Firewall helps on my Okidata. However, there is no additional software here, just the built-in Vista driver. I can't (don't want to) leave my firewall completely down. Is there another exception or port I can open? |
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| | Re: Printing takes forever Try file and printer sharing Make sure you don't have two firewall applications (or enable the ports on the other application as well). If that fails please start a new post since you are not using a Canon driver. -- Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1 This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "James" <James@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:41D0D10B-CC62-40AE-803F-7DCA9BCA4DBD@xxxxxx Quote: > It does seem that disabling the Firewall helps on my Okidata. However, > there > is no additional software here, just the built-in Vista driver. I can't > (don't want to) leave my firewall completely down. Is there another > exception or port I can open? |
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| | RE: Printing takes forever Thanks for your help... I really appreciate it. Thanks again. -- Grant Turri-Petrie "Grant" wrote: Quote: > Hi all, got a problem that I hope someone can help me with. I'm running Vista > Home Premium and have just installed a Canon LBP5000 Colour Laser. It works > okay but printing anything takes forever... A colour picture can take up to > 5mins to print and a simple paragraph in black on a single sheet will take 2 > to 3 minutes. I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling the printer > software/drives but no difference. This printer was on an XP machine and when > printing from that it was as good as gold. I tried sharing it off the XP > machine to the Vista machine but got the same result... slow as a wet week! > Has anybody got any ideas? The way things stand the Canon is virtually > unusable. Thanks. > Grant > -- > Grant Turri-Petrie |
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