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HP Universal Driver 5.2 Unbearably Slow



 
 
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Old February 10th 11, 09:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Default HP Universal Driver 5.2 Unbearably Slow

I'm trying to use the HP Universal Printer driver 5.2 on a Windows XP
computer to an HP M3035 printer. It is unbearably slow. It can take two
minutes just for the initial print dialog to respond to any inputs after
selecting this driver. Then when I hit OK it can take as much as 30
minutes to print a 10 page document.

My guess is that some communication between the printer and driver is timing
out over and over. Can anyone guess at what the problem might be?

I have the same driver on another Windows XP computer and it works fine.

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Old February 11th 11, 07:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Default HP Universal Driver 5.2 Unbearably Slow

In ,
W typed:
:: I'm trying to use the HP Universal Printer driver 5.2 on a
:: Windows XP computer to an HP M3035 printer. It is
:: unbearably slow. It can take two minutes just for the
:: initial print dialog to respond to any inputs after
:: selecting this driver. Then when I hit OK it can take as
:: much as 30 minutes to print a 10 page document.
::
:: My guess is that some communication between the printer
:: and driver is timing out over and over. Can anyone
:: guess at what the problem might be?
::
:: I have the same driver on another Windows XP computer and
:: it works fine.
::
:: --
:: W

That sounds very familiar; had the same issue with my HP 2025n.
The culprit turned out to be javaw.exe located in one of the HP folders.
The eventual solution, I think, was to grab the javaw.exe from the i836 (of
which you may also find multiples of) but nothing seemed to fix the
slowness. Then finally, HP admitted to the javaw program and suggested using
the latest one in a java download, or download it from their site. When I
looked on their site their javaw.exe was the exact same hash as what I had,
so I pulled one from the java folder and it worked! It's been fine ever
since.

Sorry, wish my info was better, but take a look at javaw.exe in the HP
folders and see if you don't have something similar. No idea whether my fix
is your fix, but I'll bet the javaw.exe is responsible.

HTH,

Twayne`


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Old February 12th 11, 02:38 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Default HP Universal Driver 5.2 Unbearably Slow

"Twayne" wrote in message
...
In ,
W typed:
:: I'm trying to use the HP Universal Printer driver 5.2 on a
:: Windows XP computer to an HP M3035 printer. It is
:: unbearably slow. It can take two minutes just for the
:: initial print dialog to respond to any inputs after
:: selecting this driver. Then when I hit OK it can take as
:: much as 30 minutes to print a 10 page document.
::
:: My guess is that some communication between the printer
:: and driver is timing out over and over. Can anyone
:: guess at what the problem might be?
::
:: I have the same driver on another Windows XP computer and
:: it works fine.
::
:: --
:: W

That sounds very familiar; had the same issue with my HP 2025n.
The culprit turned out to be javaw.exe located in one of the HP

folders.
The eventual solution, I think, was to grab the javaw.exe from the i836

(of
which you may also find multiples of) but nothing seemed to fix the
slowness. Then finally, HP admitted to the javaw program and suggested

using
the latest one in a java download, or download it from their site. When I
looked on their site their javaw.exe was the exact same hash as what I

had,
so I pulled one from the java folder and it worked! It's been fine ever
since.


What folder did you copy the javaw.exe file to?

Java installs this into c:\program files\java\jre6\bin. I suppose you
could use that as the source.

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Old February 14th 11, 09:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Twayne[_2_]
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Default HP Universal Driver 5.2 Unbearably Slow

In ,
W typed:
:: "Twayne" wrote in message
:: ...
::: In ,
::: W typed:
::::: I'm trying to use the HP Universal Printer driver 5.2
::::: on a Windows XP computer to an HP M3035 printer. It
::::: is unbearably slow. It can take two minutes just for
::::: the initial print dialog to respond to any inputs after
::::: selecting this driver. Then when I hit OK it can take
::::: as much as 30 minutes to print a 10 page document.
:::::
::::: My guess is that some communication between the printer
::::: and driver is timing out over and over. Can anyone
::::: guess at what the problem might be?
:::::
::::: I have the same driver on another Windows XP computer
::::: and it works fine.
:::::
::::: --
::::: W
:::
::: That sounds very familiar; had the same issue with my HP
::: 2025n. The culprit turned out to be javaw.exe located
::: in one of the HP folders. The eventual solution, I think,
::: was to grab the javaw.exe from the i836 (of which you may
::: also find multiples of) but nothing seemed to fix the
::: slowness. Then finally, HP admitted to the javaw program
::: and suggested using the latest one in a java download, or
::: download it from their site. When I looked on their site
::: their javaw.exe was the exact same hash as what I had, so
::: I pulled one from the java folder and it worked! It's
::: been fine ever since.
::
:: What folder did you copy the javaw.exe file to?

Whatever folder it originally was present in. Here's where my other copies
are located:

PowerDesk Text Copy Dir:
javaw.exe 145,184 11/12/2010 6:53 PM a C:\Program
Files\Java\jre6\bin\
javaw.exe 45,163 5/27/2008 6:12 PM a C:\Program
Files\NetObjects\NetObjects Fusion 11.0\NetObjects System\JRE\1.4\bin\
javaw.exe 45,163 5/27/2008 6:12 PM a C:\Program
Files\NetObjects\OLDNetObjects Fusion 11.0\NetObjects System\JRE\1.4\bin\
javaw.exe 145,184 4/12/2010 4:29 PM a C:\Program
Files\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\
javaw.exe 145,184 11/12/2010 6:53 PM a
C:\WINDOWS\system32\

::
:: Java installs this into c:\program files\java\jre6\bin.
:: I suppose you could use that as the source.

Perhaps; or system32 but you'd have to change the source path it's being
looked for that way. IMO better to replace it in same exact position/path
the original one was in.

Sorry; didn't think it'd get complicated. What happened when you just
deleted javaw.exe from the HP folder where it lives? Perhaps the HP forums
would be a good place to ask; this is all "IIRC" in my case.

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Regards,

Tom`



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