HP5550 slows to a crawl!

[Josh]

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I have a hp5550 connected via usb to my XP machine. Say i'm printing
a few pages of simple text in draft mode; the printer zooms through
the 1st half page. But just recently it started slowing right down.
Halfway through the 1st page the printer is taking 3 seconds per
sweep. Its slower than high quality mode. A page or 2 further on it
will speed up for half a page, then slow down again.

Ive tried all the different quality modes - same behaviour. Ink carts
are nearly full and the output quality is fine. Any ideas why it
slows down?

 

[Guest]

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Are you using the parallel port? This is prone to CPU hogging, USB is much
better.


"Josh" <josh3010@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have a hp5550 connected via usb to my XP machine. Say i'm printing
> a few pages of simple text in draft mode; the printer zooms through
> the 1st half page. But just recently it started slowing right down.
> Halfway through the 1st page the printer is taking 3 seconds per
> sweep. Its slower than high quality mode. A page or 2 further on it
> will speed up for half a page, then slow down again.
>
> Ive tried all the different quality modes - same behaviour. Ink carts
> are nearly full and the output quality is fine. Any ideas why it
> slows down?

 

[Guest]

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Steve B wrote in message
news:410fc777$0$41794$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net...
> Are you using the parallel port? This is prone to CPU hogging, USB
is much
> better.

> Josh wrote in message
> news:6923e56d.0408030057.16bd2348@posting.google.com...
> > I have a hp5550 connected via usb to my XP machine.
^^^^

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[Guest]

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Whoops.

>
> > Josh wrote in message
> > news:6923e56d.0408030057.16bd2348@posting.google.com...
> > > I have a hp5550 connected via usb to my XP machine.