I tried everything you suggested, but to no avail. I do not believe it is a
software problem because the printer is slow printing it's own test sheet
when the computer is off. The print quality is fine, yet it is just slow as
molasses. Help?!

Chuck Hassenplug
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> When I had a similar problem on our HP870, the HP technician suggested
> emptying the Windows Temp folder and going into my browser settings and
> reconfiguring the cache to 2% or lower.  It worked.  These are Pentium 166
> workstations that print over a network on proxy server.  We would get out
of
> paper errors, or the print job would stop halfway thru.  something to try.
> He claimed competing resources.  I've thought of increasing the printer
RAM,
> but haven't gotten around to doing it.

> Chuck Finnigan
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> > I have an HP DeskJet 855Cse printer running under Win98. All of a
sudden,
> > when I tried to print a file in Word 97, the printer got really slow,
> > printing one line of text maybe every 12 seconds or so. I though it
might
> be
> > related to software, so I deleted the printer from Device Manager, and
> > reinstalled the printer and the drivers. No dice, still slow. I then
> turned
> > off the computer, put power to just the printer, and tried a test page
by
> > pressing a button on the printer for three seconds. Still slow. So I
have
> > narrowed it down to the printer itself, but do not know  where to go
from
> > there. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you,

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