XP at a virtually stand-still whilst printing

[Farflame]

I know printers take up alot of resources, but it never ceases to amaze me just how slow a top-of-the-range computer will run just because it's printing a document. It seems that with every version of Windows, the problem gets worse, and seemingly with every computer upgrade. For example, I was running my printing on Windows ME at 1700mhz. It slowed the computer down a bit, but not too bad. Then I upgraded to XP and 2400mhz and it was painful. Now I'm on XP and a 3000mhz computer, with 1ghz RAM, a massive/almost empty HD and when I'm printing, the computer is now virtually unusable. I am printing large documents (200 pages or so) but why is it slower on such a fast computer?

So I suppose my question is, am I doing something wrong and is there some setting I can tick to make the computer usuable whilst printing?

[Byte]

Buy a printer with more built-in memory.
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"Farflame" wrote:

>
> I know printers take up alot of resources, but it never ceases to amaze
> me just how slow a top-of-the-range computer will run just because it's
> printing a document. It seems that with every version of Windows, the
> problem gets worse, and seemingly with every computer upgrade. For
> example, I was running my printing on Windows ME at 1700mhz. It slowed
> the computer down a bit, but not too bad. Then I upgraded to XP and
> 2400mhz and it was painful. Now I'm on XP and a 3000mhz computer, with
> 1ghz RAM, a massive/almost empty HD and when I'm printing, the computer
> is now virtually unusable. I am printing large documents (200 pages or
> so) but why is it slower on such a fast computer?
>
> So I suppose my question is, am I doing something wrong and is there
> some setting I can tick to make the computer usuable whilst printing?
>
>
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