Techie Question - Why is my printer SO slow? Can Anybody help?

[mummycan]

My printer is so slow - it takes abot half an hour to print 15 pages? Anybody techie enough to be able to help? It's a hp deskjet 5650 - if that helps.
TIA

Have you got lots of other memory heavy things going on on your pc while it's printing? When I am low of memory or on disk space, my printer goes really slow if I try to look at the internet or do a virus scan at the same time.

Thanks - will try that - better get back to doing some work

Print speed depends on a lot of thigs such as print quality and what other applications you have running at the time.
Also how big (Mb or Kb) is one page? as a printer has a memory buffer. Basically your printer found here has a memory buffer of 8Mb, which mean that it can only hold 8Mb of info from ur PC at a time.
So if the pages are large Mb wize it will take a while as the document goes from pc to printer in a max of 8Mb chunks.
Think of it as taking the kids to the same school, only one at a time, having to come home to collect another, before taking him/her to school, then having to come home for the last one...it would take all morning lol