IR5000 printing

[fdfd]

Hii my friends .. i have an IR5000 when i print over network on it
it is soo slow printing ... so do u have any seltions for this slow printing ....

[yourownfree]

download the latest driver from canon.com, make sure you get the right one for your computer os. try both Postscript and pcl5 drivers. pcl is probably what you should be using. once loaded be sure to go to your printer folder and select device settings tab and the get device status. This pulls the info to the driver to let it know if it has a finisher or not and if so what kind. That part has nothing to do with speed but needed to complete the update.
usually the correct settings are setup already when you download and install the print driver. rarely do we have to go and change a setting. are you using a canon driver? do you go through a network where the main office is in another town? are you printing directly to the printer. Go to start, then printers folder and right click on the printer driver icon. go to properties, then ports. Look at the ports and is the one highlighted say a number or a name? number like 192.168.1.100 ? You know once you download the driver it will have to be installed, have you done this before? do you know what the ip address is of the copier? and your computer?

[fdfd]

i donw that all
but still slow speaclially with PDF files .... andi using the last PS3 driver 4.1

[xcopytech]

ir 5000 network printing

hi,

ir 5000 have old type network card.
ir 5000i have new type of network card and network printing is very fast.

as i know you can not do anything to fix this.

br

[Mr Spock]

Are you using adobe version 8.0 if so the problems lies with the software. You need to either downgrade to 7.x or update above version 8.1. This is a known issue and one that was fixed in the 8.1 version.

[fdfd]

i was using befor it with the same computer and network setting GP350 and i was very Fast than the new Model IR5000 ...
u can't imagen how it is so slow .. it is print paper then stop writing Waiting to printing then print another paper then stop awhile then printing then stop a while ... just to print 100 paper with text and graphs and some Pic u maye wait 45 min.

that is not acceptable

[yourownfree]

please explain:
using Adobe? what version
print driver version ? is it for this copier.
are you going through a network to another location, city town first?
check on your driver "spool on your computer and start printing immediately"
have you tried pcl5?
are you using an hp driver? dont!
just because it prints doesn't mean its the right driver.
tells us all that you use program to print driver and version of each, it helps.

[fdfd]

ok

i am using Pcl 5 ver 8.10 canon driver
i print over the net work in same network
and it is so fast to deleverd to printer
it stored in the Printer status\ Spooling \
so u can see much files spooled already in asppoled Monitor ot the printer panal But in the Print panal it is on and it is sooo slow ... prtinit then waiting the proccessing the printing then waiting ..........

so i can print 100 paper with graphs and border in 45 min that is long time
even Ink jet printer will be faster than that ...

i think that is there is problem in the Printing Unit of the Copyer

[yourownfree]

how big is the file? I have a 5000 i can try it on. were you using adobe? or what program? I cant remember if my 5000 is older or newer. I believe newer. I will look when i get back to the office. As I recall i think you can upgrade to a newer version of main controller, but i know its a cost. First lets see what the problem really is. I always hate to put the blame on anything unless i really know for sure. More often than not, customers will assume there is a copier problem when there is not. I think we have to find a way to narrow it down. one way is to try the same program,version, print driver version hopefully same copier print board and see if there is a difference there. I don't have any set file i can use to count the time, how long it takes to process. Maybe there is one I don't know of one myself, though. I sent a pdf file to a c5185 that had 30 pages. It took quite some time. It would print one at about 65% then process and print another and process. I needed 10 copies of 30 pages, so i tried it again, good grief it was processing for eternity finally at page 20 of 30 i think it started to print one. but it took about 10 times longer. so long i had to cancel it, thats actually when it started printing. Then i had to go and cancel that on the copier. I then realized it would be faster to just print out 1 master and make 10 copies from that using the doc feeder and making copies. So if you had 100 pages, You know it just might take 45 minutes. If i can get 45 minutes, i can just send a 100 page pdf file to the 5000. Is yours pdf files?
let me know, i will try and duplicate it. If i can duplicate it then its not the copier, its just the copier is slower than slow. They are slow you know.
If there was a file you are not worried about sharing, you could time it on yours, and could time the same on mine, using identical programs. Except for computer speed of course. let me know

[costd]

From left field - make sure you are printing directly to the printer and using a standard TCP-IP port.

[Canuck]

Try installing Canon LPR port..get it from Canon site....what operating system? Any RIP? Type of network(client server or peer-to-peer)...if there's a server ,not printing while ripping? Don't run network cable through line filter

[welshman]

slow printing

it will only have 256meg of memory installed
fit another 256meg dim to the machine

also turn off printer spooling in the driver let the computer do all the work then send the job this should speed up the printing they are not normally slow at printing

recap

increase avaliable memmory to machine fit another dim
turn off print spooling in driver