Ricoh mpc3500 print spooling very very slow

[NeoMatrix]

Sounds like some one may have turned off some of the "System Services" on the PC ?

Control Panel|Administration Tools|Services | Print Spooling <start> set to <automatic>

Is print spooling enable and started on the PC ? Try another PC.

[HaveBlue]

Re: Ricoh mpc3500 print spooling very very slow

Anyone happen to come up with other solutions? We are trying to retire a large HP 11x17 color printer and use our Ricoh MPC3300 for printing color but it prints incredibly slow. The problem seems to be that the network interface on the copier only transmits at 1Mbps which is 1980s network speed. I have it set to 100 full duplex and have tried other settings. Our backbone is 1Gbps and works reliably with other network printers. No matter what, the printer only accepts data at a very slow speed (exactly 1Mbps) compared even to $50 wireless inkjet printers. Also tried different cabling and such. Also switched to a universal PCL driver that allows more settings such as lowering resolution and document complexity. But really the print interface seems completely inadequate by any modern print standard.