Printing very slow

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Since it's the company printer, you really must wait for the IT department.
Sorry.
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Cari
(MS-MVP Printing & Imaging)

"Ads" <nomail@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I'm sorry if this is not the correct ng but I can't find any where
> else
> that may help.
> We have just had a new all in one printer installed in our office.
> According
> to the IT department ( who are really snowed under) it's working ok but
> it's very slow and I'm sure this isn't right.
> It prints 5 pages and then stops for a few seconds and then another few
> and
> stops again.
> It's a Brother DCP8040 scanner/copier/printer. It certainly doens't print
> to
> it's specified ppm. It's installed on my pc and shared by 3 others.
> Brother's web site support is not very helpful as they want all the
> invoice
> info but we don't want to go over the IT staff's head but we really want
> to
> try and speed it up. What would help is to know what the spooling and
> pooling settings are best set at.
> Thanks in advance.
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