Asp Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago (edited) I've been using HP Laserjets for many years now. Currently a HP 2420. Connected to my XP PC first by parallel port. Later, with a network model, went to ethernet, making it available to laptops and phones. All worked pretty smoothly. A few months ago, my desk router died. That took the ethernet from the wall socket to the main router and connected my PC and the printer, gave each a local IP.. So I connected the PC directly to the wall socket but now had no port for the printer, so I got a USB cable and plugged it in to the PC. It detected the printer and I installed the drivers. "Printers" shows it connected to "DOT4_001" port, "Generic IEEE 1284.4 Printing Support". Previously, by ethernet or parallel, sending a simple print job took maybe 2 seconds, and it would start printing after another 2 seconds. With USB, I see on its panel "Receiving data" then "Processing data" then ":Receiving data", "Processing data".... seemingly endlessly. I stopped and restarted both PC and printer several times. Eventually I tried again and let it go, it took two minutes then it finally started printing. The page was perfect. I will replace the router, but in the meantime, why is USB so slow, what is going on? Port settings? Tried different USB sockets on the PC, both USB2 and USB3, no change. Edited 4 hours ago by Asp
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