Slow Printing

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I have an HP 1350 PSC printer and when I first installed it it worked fine.
about a month ago it sterted printing very slowly ( 15 seconds delay between
each scan across the page and back). It doesn't matter what program I print
from, they all act the same. contacted HP and they swapped the printer out
with a new printer. That printer does the same thing. Has anyone
experienced similar printing delays, or does anyone have an idea where to
start troublshooting this thing?

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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:35:45 GMT, Hugh Epley <hughepley@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have an HP 1350 PSC printer and when I first installed it it worked fine.
> about a month ago it sterted printing very slowly ( 15 seconds delay between
> each scan across the page and back). It doesn't matter what program I print
> from, they all act the same. contacted HP and they swapped the printer out
> with a new printer. That printer does the same thing. Has anyone
> experienced similar printing delays, or does anyone have an idea where to
> start troublshooting this thing?

I would look for a system problem on your PC first. What OS? If it has a
Task Manager, how much RAM is being used and available? Maybe your system
is paging virtual memory to disk. Maybe you got a worm or trojan.

The work PC of one co-worker started having trouble opening programs. He
had a worm that was gobbling up memory.

Another co-worker's home PC was sluggish. It came with 256 MB RAM shared
with video. I added RAM, and it was then using 309 MB just after booting
(more than total RAM it originally had).

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ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in
news:4192d274.47523729@news.charter.net:

> I'm with you. A sudden slow-down after an initial period of proper
> operation implies something really hosed up in the operating system. A
> worm(s) or trojan(s) are as likely causes as any other. The OP might
> improve the situation by downloading, updating with latest definitions
> and running both Spybot and Ad-Aware. Nothing to lose there, and
> everything to gain... Ben Myers
>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:33:18 +0000 (UTC), efflandt@xnet.com (David
> Efflandt) wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:35:45 GMT, Hugh Epley <hughepley@yahoo.com>
>>wrote:
>>> I have an HP 1350 PSC printer and when I first installed it it worked
>>> fine. about a month ago it sterted printing very slowly ( 15 seconds
>>> delay between each scan across the page and back). It doesn't matter
>>> what program I print from, they all act the same. contacted HP and
>>> they swapped the printer out with a new printer. That printer does
>>> the same thing. Has anyone experienced similar printing delays, or
>>> does anyone have an idea where to start troublshooting this thing?
>>
>>I would look for a system problem on your PC first. What OS? If it
>>has a Task Manager, how much RAM is being used and available? Maybe
>>your system is paging virtual memory to disk. Maybe you got a worm or
>>trojan.
>>
>>The work PC of one co-worker started having trouble opening programs.
>>He had a worm that was gobbling up memory.
>>
>>Another co-worker's home PC was sluggish. It came with 256 MB RAM
>>shared with video. I added RAM, and it was then using 309 MB just
>>after booting (more than total RAM it originally had).
>
>
I have made a new discovery. When I disconnect the USB cable from the
printer and copy a document without the computer connected, the printer
still acts the same way (i.e., injects a 10-15 second delay during the
printing). Since the original printer and the replacement printer both act
the same, and since the only other component is the AC power adaptor, is
there a possibility that a faulty adaptor would provide an incorrect voltage
that would allow the printer to function, but not correctly? Any ideas?
Thanks, Hugh Epley