WorkCentre M118 ethernet speed issue

[thanar]

Hello,

This is my first post in this forum. I will appreciate it you would have a look to the issue I am facing. As a welcoming nod, any suggestions would be welcome!

I have been having this issue ever since I bought my multifunction printer. I have the printer connected to my LAN though a router. There are 2 Windows and 2 OS X machines on the LAN. I am using Xerox-supported drivers when printing from Windows, while I have installed Gutenprint opensource drivers on the OS X laptops. I can successfully print from all computers.

The issue I am facing has to do with ethernet speed: All devices report Full Duplex, 100baseTX ethernet types, M118 set to auto ethernet speed reports 100baseTX as well, I am experiencing VERY SLOW speed when the file is being sent to the printer. Even with 10baseTX, I would expect a speed around 1MB/sec. I am actually getting less than 300KB/sec transfer rates, meaning that some 10MB files I am printing take around 6 to 7 minutes before they get transferred to the printer.

I would like to add that the issue occurs ONLY when printing through ETHERNET. Using a USB cable seems to fix the problem, but using a USB cable unfortunately doesn't suit my office configuration well. I have contacted Greek Xerox support by phone many times and they seem unable to offer me a solution. They seem to focus on image quality and driver options, which is not the problem, since through USB the 10MB files I am referring to is being sent in around 10 seconds. A colleague of mine -to whom I recommended the same workcenter model- is facing the EXCACT SAME PROBLEM under his office configuration, somehow different from my own, although still trying to print through the ethernet port.

[jeanpaul]

change the port in the driver from raw to lpr,Queue Name lp lower case.
this will fasten the speed

[thanar]

Hello,

Thanx for the reply. I tried your suggestion, changing driver data type from RAW to LPR, but I am still getting transfer speed of just 300 to 400KB/sec through me 100base-T ethernet local network. OK, maybe it did help a bit, around 10% speed increase.

However, I don't find it logical. Is it the way laser printers work, or is it just mine? What's the point of having a 100base-T ethernet port build-in into the Xerox, if it works on (almost) serial speed?

Any views will be appreciated on the matter.

[thanar]

Any reports on YOUR ethernet transfer speeds, people?