Epson R300 - second print slower?

[Guest]

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This has bugged me since I bought the printer, and I was wondering whether
anyone had a solution. When you print, I've found that it takes little time
to spit out the first print...it's really fast actually, but then if you
start a 2nd print job, it takes 4-6 minutes for it to start that second
print.

The printer icon is down in taskbar, and it "Starts the clock" when you
first hit print, but the Epson status monitor doesn't pop up with the ink
levels for 4-6 minutes and it then prints.

Any ideas?

 

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"Spassvogel" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
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> This has bugged me since I bought the printer, and I was wondering whether
> anyone had a solution. When you print, I've found that it takes little
> time to spit out the first print...it's really fast actually, but then if
> you start a 2nd print job, it takes 4-6 minutes for it to start that
> second print.
>
> The printer icon is down in taskbar, and it "Starts the clock" when you
> first hit print, but the Epson status monitor doesn't pop up with the ink
> levels for 4-6 minutes and it then prints.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
Sounds like lack of RAM, or lack of fast temporary disc space. Try a defrag
or two, and unless you really need it, turn off High Speed Copies on the
Speed & Progress options (on the printer properties - maintenance tab).

 

[Guest]

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It's definitely not a RAM situation, heck, I'm more often than not just
printing single pages of text. I also defrag often because I do a lot of DV
capturing/editing.

I just don't get why it prints quickly first time through, but has to take a
5 minute break before printing a single page of text again.

I also tried turning off "high speed copies" but it didn't change anything.
I also tried to disable spooling, but oddly, it sat there for even longer
with "spooling" under the status.

JR

"Harvey" <harvey@not.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Spassvogel" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:JMedneq1KcXDgZDfRVn-rQ@giganews.com...
>> This has bugged me since I bought the printer, and I was wondering
>> whether anyone had a solution. When you print, I've found that it takes
>> little time to spit out the first print...it's really fast actually, but
>> then if you start a 2nd print job, it takes 4-6 minutes for it to start
>> that second print.
>>
>> The printer icon is down in taskbar, and it "Starts the clock" when you
>> first hit print, but the Epson status monitor doesn't pop up with the ink
>> levels for 4-6 minutes and it then prints.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
> Sounds like lack of RAM, or lack of fast temporary disc space. Try a
> defrag or two, and unless you really need it, turn off High Speed Copies
> on the Speed & Progress options (on the printer properties - maintenance
> tab).
>
>

 

[Guest]

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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:58:06 -0800, in comp.periphs.printers "Spassvogel"
<nospam@nospam.org> wrote:

>This has bugged me since I bought the printer, and I was wondering whether
>anyone had a solution. When you print, I've found that it takes little time
>to spit out the first print...it's really fast actually, but then if you
>start a 2nd print job, it takes 4-6 minutes for it to start that second
>print.
>
>The printer icon is down in taskbar, and it "Starts the clock" when you
>first hit print, but the Epson status monitor doesn't pop up with the ink
>levels for 4-6 minutes and it then prints.
>
>Any ideas?

What OS? How is virtual memory set and managed and how much free space is
on the partition where the print spooler is set?
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http://EdwardGRuf.com

 

[Guest]

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> What OS? How is virtual memory set and managed and how much free space is
> on the partition where the print spooler is set?

XP Home...
I have 4gig of virtual memory spread over two hard drives. One has 25gig
free and the one has 10gig free.

I tried emailing Epson once, but their response was useless. Maybe I'll try
again.

Thanks for the responses,

JR

 

[Guest]

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"Spassvogel" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
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>> What OS? How is virtual memory set and managed and how much free space is
>> on the partition where the print spooler is set?
>
> XP Home...
> I have 4gig of virtual memory spread over two hard drives. One has 25gig
> free and the one has 10gig free.
>
> I tried emailing Epson once, but their response was useless. Maybe I'll
> try again.
>
> Thanks for the responses,
>
> JR
>
4gig? it could be you have too much swap file - Windows will swap files
rather than reload given the choice - reducing the swap file to a more
sensible amount would force Windows to reload (which can be faster) rather
than swap out-in-out-in...

 

[Rob]

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Spassvogel wrote:
>>What OS? How is virtual memory set and managed and how much free space is
>>on the partition where the print spooler is set?
>
>
> XP Home...
> I have 4gig of virtual memory spread over two hard drives. One has 25gig
> free and the one has 10gig free.
>
> I tried emailing Epson once, but their response was useless. Maybe I'll try
> again.
>
> Thanks for the responses,
>
> JR
>
>

I would have a look at your Windows Task Manager - Performance/processes
and see what that's telling you.

It could be that its unloading the first spool whilst printing the
second spool file.

 

[Guest]

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I would run this by Epson. I have experienced this as well, even with a
parallel connection. It may be some type of buffer filling up, or
indeed lack of enough spool space, as mentioned previously. Does the
file size (amount of data being printed on the page) make any difference?

Is anything else using up resources that might be creating a bottleneck?

Art

Spassvogel wrote:

> It's definitely not a RAM situation, heck, I'm more often than not just
> printing single pages of text. I also defrag often because I do a lot of DV
> capturing/editing.
>
> I just don't get why it prints quickly first time through, but has to take a
> 5 minute break before printing a single page of text again.
>
> I also tried turning off "high speed copies" but it didn't change anything.
> I also tried to disable spooling, but oddly, it sat there for even longer
> with "spooling" under the status.
>
> JR
>
> "Harvey" <harvey@not.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:l0cPd.504$W_5.492@newsfe2-win.ntli.net...
>
>>"Spassvogel" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
>>news:JMedneq1KcXDgZDfRVn-rQ@giganews.com...
>>
>>>This has bugged me since I bought the printer, and I was wondering
>>>whether anyone had a solution. When you print, I've found that it takes
>>>little time to spit out the first print...it's really fast actually, but
>>>then if you start a 2nd print job, it takes 4-6 minutes for it to start
>>>that second print.
>>>
>>>The printer icon is down in taskbar, and it "Starts the clock" when you
>>>first hit print, but the Epson status monitor doesn't pop up with the ink
>>>levels for 4-6 minutes and it then prints.
>>>
>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Sounds like lack of RAM, or lack of fast temporary disc space. Try a
>>defrag or two, and unless you really need it, turn off High Speed Copies
>>on the Speed & Progress options (on the printer properties - maintenance
>>tab).
>>
>>
>
>
>

 

[Larry]

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In article <P_kQd.399$%y.32@clgrps12>, artistic@telus.net says...
> Subject: Re: Epson R300 - second print slower?
> From: Arthur Entlich <artistic@telus.net>
> Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
>
> I would run this by Epson. I have experienced this as well, even with a
> parallel connection. It may be some type of buffer filling up, or
> indeed lack of enough spool space, as mentioned previously. Does the
> file size (amount of data being printed on the page) make any difference?
>
> Is anything else using up resources that might be creating a bottleneck?
>
> Art
>
> Spassvogel wrote:
>

I would suspect it is "drying time" since the first print goes
quickly.


--
Larry Lynch
Mystic, Ct.

 

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I did contact Epson, they told me to install the latest drivers. I had
already done that, but followed all their directions and wiped the drivers
from the registry and installed the latest ones.

Printed a 9k text file, it came out in seconds.
Printed the SAME 9k text file...5 minutes before it came out.

When I double clicked the white printer icon in the taskbar, there was a
blank space where it says "STATUS" but after 5 minutes is suddenly changed
to PRINTING.

When I send a print job to the printer, and then while it's printing, send
another print job, (so there are two jobs), it STILL waits 5 minutes after
the first one is finished for the second one to come out.

When I told this to Epson, they said "it defnitely shouldn't be doing that"
and that there "may" be something conflicting with the printer. So now they
want me to do a "Selective startup" with MSCONFIG and keep checking,
unchecking boxes and printing files.

Gee.

JR

 

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"Spassvogel" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote in
news:rqCdnYFVdLtqR4_fRVn-vw@giganews.com:

> I did contact Epson, they told me to install the latest drivers. I
> had already done that, but followed all their directions and wiped the
> drivers from the registry and installed the latest ones.
>
> Printed a 9k text file, it came out in seconds.
> Printed the SAME 9k text file...5 minutes before it came out.
>
> When I double clicked the white printer icon in the taskbar, there was
> a blank space where it says "STATUS" but after 5 minutes is suddenly
> changed to PRINTING.
>
> When I send a print job to the printer, and then while it's printing,
> send another print job, (so there are two jobs), it STILL waits 5
> minutes after the first one is finished for the second one to come
> out.
>
> When I told this to Epson, they said "it defnitely shouldn't be doing
> that" and that there "may" be something conflicting with the printer.
> So now they want me to do a "Selective startup" with MSCONFIG and keep
> checking, unchecking boxes and printing files.
>
> Gee.
>
> JR
>
>
>

You do have a serious problem, following up on this whats your hardware -
software configuration? I'll try to help