Any printer gurus?

[Thrust Augmentation]

I'm on the market for a new laser MFP & have a query;

I've got Windows software that outputs multiple pages as single job per page - the trusty Dell network office printer (C1765NFW - 295MHz / 128MB) that's due for replacement processes & prints the pages one by one with a "stop" between each page. That seems fair enough as they are being passed to the printer page by page, but I've also got a small & cheap Samsung "home" printer (M2020W - 400MHz / 64MB) & it just pumps the same job out continuously until the entire job is finished without any pause or stop between pages. The print jobs are being sent from the same laptop over the same type of connection (it's apparent over USB & network)

I'm figuring this has something to do with the print engine, processor, memory or PDL & I'm trying to figure out which to try & ensure that the new printer doesn't stop on every page.

Any advice appreciated.

[Asturias56]

Are you using W10?

[Thrust Augmentation]

No - on Win7 Pro - forgot to mention that..

System & printers all have latest available drivers / firmware & everything is set up the same in Win printer properties.

[Asturias56]

I know W10 will print documents to a Laserjet in a continuous sequence

It might be worth googling - there appear to be a number of possible issues

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...a-9f84255e8cb1

but you might just try CONTROL P and printing from there

[Thrust Augmentation]

I've gone through all the usual spooler stuff & printer settings & they are the best part identical between the printers, so i'm confident it's not anything there (famous last words though...), Ctrl P isn't an option as the software generating the pages doesn't open or preview the pages.

The Dell dosn't stop as such after each page, but it's releasing rollers & such like after every page which makes it slow in comparison to running a multi page single document - which it does continuously / as expected / fine.

Thanks.

[FullOppositeRudder]

I'm using a very basic (low cost) four year old Brother laser printer with a not terribly fast W7 desktop. The printing process has always been quite fast once the printer goes through it's strange and noisy startup sequence (10-15 seconds). Multiple page printing jobs come feeding onto the out tray in a continual sequence with no delays between pages. In fact too fast when I occasionally realise that I've asked it to print all pages of the file and not just the current page

I think you could expect that any modern and current laser printer should fulfill your reasonable expectations about continuous printing once the job has started.

[atakacs]

Originally Posted by Thrust Augmentation

I've gone through all the usual spooler stuff & printer settings & they are the best part identical between the printers, so i'm confident it's not anything there (famous last words though...), Ctrl P isn't an option as the software generating the pages doesn't open or preview the pages.
The Dell dosn't stop as such after each page, but it's releasing rollers & such like after every page which makes it slow in comparison to running a multi page single document - which it does continuously / as expected / fine.

Thanks.

when you open the print queue do you see discrete per page jobs or just one single batch?

[Thrust Augmentation]

Originally Posted by atakacs

when you open the print queue do you see discrete per page jobs or just one single batch?

The jobs are passed per page to the queue on both printers - not often more than two jobs present in the queue as they are pretty small file size wise (limited plaint text) & get handed over to both printers quickly.