Laggy Printer?

Ok I want start off by saysing i freaking hate printers.

Ok, another printer problem for you wonderful people.

We have two printers on the network, both HP LaserJet 4250tn's, that seemed to have mental blocks today. We would try to print to them and it would take the printer like 10-30min before it would finally print. I made sure the printer was not in sleep mode and there were no other jobs pending. So what on earth has made these two printers suddenly turn stupid? I'm not even sure if this is a printer problem or maybe a network problem. But with how many problems i've run into with these damn printers i'm sure someone out there has an idea about whats up. We have computers using windows xp pro service pack 2...... If you need any other info let me know!

You guys are life savers, thanks to everyone that even spends time reading this!

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Ok..... And it seems that the laggyness is entirely random too.... at one point yesterday after not using the printer for nearly an hour it printed right away.... then 10 min later it stopped again and had to wait like 25 min before everything that had been sent there in the 25 min period all printed out at once.....

anyone got any ideas?

 

And another thing.... Even if I try to print a configuration page from the printers own lcd thing it wont print until everything else does and in the correct order too..... So I dont think its a network thing..... right?.... wtf is up with these printers? confused

 

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I had an issue with slow HPs and it seemed when ever I installed the Windows default drivers they were slow, but with the manufactures driver all was well. Is it slow from everyone's PC?


Just throwing that out there..

 

I have a canon i550 printer on my hp and it's not real quick but it's not a slow poke ether, By the way i have windows vista home premium install and it installed printer drivers for my printer.

 

Well for both of the printer each only has two roughly two people that realy use them, but yes all the people that use these printers have experienced it.... And we are using the manufacturer's server driver i believe.....

 

I don't mean it prints slow.... these are business printers so they do print really fast.... once they start printing..... but what im saying is nothing will even start printing until like 10-30 min later......

and its not all the time.... it only happened once yesterday..... so im confused confussed confused on what on earth is causing this.....

 

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You might try reinstall them and see if that helps.