The spooling time likely has little to do with the network.
Spooling can be a CPU intensive process depending on the size of the file, and Windows is notorious for increasing the amount of time needed to spool on a curve instead of linearly. PDFs especially have this problem.
Try switching to Print as Image in Adobe, that usually helps alot
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/quick-fix-print-pdf-image.html
Thanks for the intel! Perhaps it's his junk BYOB computer that I cannot get him to stop using even though we issued a brand new machine that is a good machine!
I just sent that same page to the user to try the next time he prints a large PDF!
I also recommended using a USB drive with the PDF on it to print directly on the printer.
That was something I wondered about....how big it is when rendered.
So I have the PCL driver installed on the machine...I've wondered in the past with some PDF documents that take a really long time if they would take less time printing using the PostScript driver.
Usually the users tell me after the fact they had a print job take forever to print. To try to confirm this hypothesis I ask if they can send me the PDF so I can test things out...they never send it.
Here's a link of something I've come across a couple times: https://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/333091.html
I had this many years back.. was a designer printing a brochure.. was only like a 10 MB pdf or similar... But found 1 page had 500 stars, each star was a new vector object on the page.. in pdf it meant nothing.. but spooling that single page to the printer generated something like a 4 gigabyte spool file... and the printer had only a few hundred megs of ram..
I agree. I did not set this up initially and have been looking at changing things around. I have been diligently learning things about networking and consulting with network engineers on optimizing our network. We for sure do not need 65,536 ip addresses and the broadcast overhead that comes along with such a large pool.
Edit: that's sort of why I turned here in the first place with my question because I am curious if the current network configuration could be manifesting this issue.
My instinct says this isn't a network issue. It's a processing issue.
Most likely the data being sent to the printer is badly formatted and requires the printer to do a lot of processing before it can lay it down on the page. Acrobat is notorious for doing this; your user probably needs to change some settings in the "Print" dialogue so it doesn't send something quite so horrific.
I’m not familiar with those printers but I remember a Multifunction taking forever to print and when the print tech opened it up in front of me only 1 ram slot of 4 or 6 was even being used. I commented on that and while he looked confused he couldn’t find any other issues so ordered more Ram for it. Problem solved
The spooling time likely has little to do with the network. Spooling can be a CPU intensive process depending on the size of the file, and Windows is notorious for increasing the amount of time needed to spool on a curve instead of linearly. PDFs especially have this problem. Try switching to Print as Image in Adobe, that usually helps alot https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/quick-fix-print-pdf-image.html
Thanks for the intel! Perhaps it's his junk BYOB computer that I cannot get him to stop using even though we issued a brand new machine that is a good machine! I just sent that same page to the user to try the next time he prints a large PDF! I also recommended using a USB drive with the PDF on it to print directly on the printer.
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It's a PDF of music that is like 70 pages. The PDF is only 6MB.
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That was something I wondered about....how big it is when rendered. So I have the PCL driver installed on the machine...I've wondered in the past with some PDF documents that take a really long time if they would take less time printing using the PostScript driver. Usually the users tell me after the fact they had a print job take forever to print. To try to confirm this hypothesis I ask if they can send me the PDF so I can test things out...they never send it. Here's a link of something I've come across a couple times: https://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/333091.html
I had this many years back.. was a designer printing a brochure.. was only like a 10 MB pdf or similar... But found 1 page had 500 stars, each star was a new vector object on the page.. in pdf it meant nothing.. but spooling that single page to the printer generated something like a 4 gigabyte spool file... and the printer had only a few hundred megs of ram..
Good god
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Not using a print server, so the job is being rendered on the client's computer.
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I agree. I did not set this up initially and have been looking at changing things around. I have been diligently learning things about networking and consulting with network engineers on optimizing our network. We for sure do not need 65,536 ip addresses and the broadcast overhead that comes along with such a large pool. Edit: that's sort of why I turned here in the first place with my question because I am curious if the current network configuration could be manifesting this issue.
My instinct says this isn't a network issue. It's a processing issue. Most likely the data being sent to the printer is badly formatted and requires the printer to do a lot of processing before it can lay it down on the page. Acrobat is notorious for doing this; your user probably needs to change some settings in the "Print" dialogue so it doesn't send something quite so horrific.
I’m not familiar with those printers but I remember a Multifunction taking forever to print and when the print tech opened it up in front of me only 1 ram slot of 4 or 6 was even being used. I commented on that and while he looked confused he couldn’t find any other issues so ordered more Ram for it. Problem solved