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This one is driving me nuts! We have an MFD on each floor here, as well as several desktop printers (various HP Laserjet, all network connected). I’ve been notified that printing of PDFs to these, in particular PDFs of scanned documents, is very slow, and so I’ve tested and confirmed that that is the case.

What’s odd is that our print server is more than adequate hardware-wise, and the network certainly isn’t a bottleneck here. Print server is running Server 2012 R2, and render print jobs on client computers is selected. With the exception of one of the older printers, all are using HP’s latest UPD (PCL6). The other is using PCL5.

I’ve tried:

  • Printing as image with Adobe Reader
  • Printing from Foxit Reader
  • Disabling advanced printing features
  • Changing to the PCL5 drivers
  • Turning off render jobs on client computers
  • Turning down DPI within printer settings

The issue still persists! What’s even more odd is that printing to our Canon MFDs (also using PCL drivers) is almost instantaneous with the same documents. When I print to the Laserjets there’s a delay of 30+ seconds (for a 5 page document, 700kb), and then between each printed page there’s an additional delay of a couple of seconds. This doesn’t seem right!

I don’t want to deploy the PS drivers tbh, telling the users to select between the two depending on what type of document they’re printing is not going to work.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I’ve scoured the internet / forums and have tried everything mentioned. No joy!

Thanks all

@HP

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I had this exact problem. The notes that I have in the ticket are as follows.

The solution that I am trying right now is to change the print mode from RAW to LPR, and disable the “Advanced printing features” option. as described in this thread ServiceNow

I can’t guarantee that this will solve the problem with the HP, but it did wonders for our xerox and dell printers.

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We had a similar situation but with a Xerox printer. Try going into the printer properties > Advanced > Print Processor and then changing the print processor to “winprint”. As soon as that was changed, the pdf print jobs came flooding out right away.

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I have found the Universal PCL5 drivers to be more reliable than the PCL6. PCL6 uses compression and was not fully implemented on my old but reliable and beloved HP LaserJet 4100’s

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I’ve also found that PCL6 drives to be somewhat flaky. I always stick to PCL5 or universal drivers if I can.

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I know what you mean - sadly PCL5 doesn’t fix it in this case.

I’ve actually installed one of the printers (HP CP2025) locally, and the situation is the same. It seems to happen with PDFs which were scans rather than those which are text-based. I’m absolutely baffled on this one!

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Have you tried the suggestion about changing the print processor to winprint?

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Sorry yes, I tried that too, no change

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If you install the printer with the same driver and settings but bypass the print server what is the result?

and the same concept but with using the LPR or Winprint processor?

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I had a similar problem problem with HP LaserJet P1606dn. The solution was those:

(I’m used to use the Portuguese version of Windows, so the terms may differ)

1st: Go to Printer Settings and select Ports and make sure that Bidirectional Support is not set

2nd: Click on Configure Port and point to your printer IP address and not it’s name

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Turn off compression on scanned pdfs. When you watch it in the queue you will notice file size gets larger than what you saw compressed. Try in uncompressed possibly at a lower dpi and you will notice normal printing.

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We have a Windows 2008 virtualized print server, Windows XP workstations, and HP 4100N printers. We tried many of the solutions, but web pages and PDFs still spooled/printed very slow. We tried PCL 5, 6, and Universal drivers - still varying degrees of very slow. Our last test was changing from the Universal 6 driver, to the most current Universal 5 driver and that did it - everything prints very well again! Hope this helps someone.

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Just wanted to weigh in. Thanks OP for the original question. I had slow printing to a networked HP LaserJet P2055dn and had tried different drivers and setups. Also moved hosting from sever to local TCP/IP mappings. Thanks to the suggestions here PCL 5 drivers and a reboot seem to have fixed the slow printer properties and print processing.

**UPDATE: issues has returned. I will update if I find and identify the solution.

**UPDATE 2: I believe I “fixed” the issue by removing the network shared setup and using local/tcpip port setup for the printer.

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I cannot seem to resolve this issue. I have a HP Laserjet Pro 521DN and the printer pauses between sets of pages on printing PDFs. I have tried changing the print processor, Changing the port from RAW to LPR, tried universal print driver and actual PCL 6 driver for the printer. I do not see a PCL 5 printer driver available unfortunately. This is one of the bosses printers, so I need to try and resolve this semi quickly.

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I know this is an older thread, but I have had (and am having) similar issues. In the past I was able to correct by two separate corrections:

1 - Turn “Protected Mode” in Adobe reader off. This security option was new in 2013 release and it seems every update resets to turn back on (if its been turned off previously)

2 - if using Windows 2008 or above print servers change rendering on the shared tab options to NOT render on local machine.

In my current issues (different employer) we are currently experiencing and am working on both options listed above to try and correct. Will update if either (or both) correct the problem. In spot-checking, both options mentioned above are currently in place at new employer (protected mode in Adobe is on and print server is rendering to local machines)

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just started happening to me again… I cant even remember all of the things I have tried to get it working at full speed in the past, but that protected mode thing sounds familiar.

FYI

  • the “Enable Protected Mode at Startup” option is located in adobe reader under Preferences (Ctrl K) and then Security (Enhanced), in the "Sandbox Protections section at the top of the page.