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Drastic decrease in printers speed
Name: capman1 Date: September 12, 2005 at 10:16:35 Pacific OS: WinXP Home CPU/Ram: 2ghz 128mb ram
Comment:
Any help or info' is appreciated on why my Lexmark X3350 Printer/copier/scanner whould one day go from taking 2 seconds to print a page in black to about 30 - 45 seconds to print that page.
The print head only moves across the paper every five seconds.
This used to be a very fast printer.
I even deleted the printer and the software thinkin that it became corrupt. After reinstalling the printer and the software, the problem persists.
Name: Kurt S Date: September 12, 2005 at 11:03:47 Pacific
Reply:
Try printing a test page from within the printer itself and not using Windows. Does it still print really slow?
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Response Number 2
Name: simonscholey Date: September 12, 2005 at 12:00:02 Pacific
Reply:
it might be the font you are using. true type fonts take longer than system fonts as there is less processing. are you trying to print the exact same document without making any changes?
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Response Number 3
Name: capman1 Date: September 12, 2005 at 14:35:32 Pacific
Reply:
Kurt, yes it did print slow.
Simon, I'm using Ariel. It's the same font I use for all my documents.
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Response Number 4
Name: ham30 Date: September 12, 2005 at 15:30:40 Pacific
Reply:
If it prints slow offline, I would suggest contacting Lexmark tech support.
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Response Number 5
Name: hb12 Date: September 12, 2005 at 15:37:25 Pacific
Reply:
Are you trying to print using a specialized paper (i.e. Color, thicker texture, etc)?
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Name: capman1 Date: September 12, 2005 at 20:18:02 Pacific
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