Slow to print? any ideas?

[harveyn]

Hi there
I have an old 1mhz PC, USB1 etc. Just recently it takes ages to send a page to the printer. The printer is fine, as I have tested it on another PC. The PC has been defragged and I recently ran ccleaner on it. The hard drive is 90% full. Any thoughts would be much appreciated, before my next request on what to buy as a replacement!
Cheers

Harvey

[aldi]

Sorry to be an arse but assuming you mean 1GHz, try removing the existing driver and freshly installing the latest one from the web. If its a HP laser make sure you get the PCL driver rather than the PS one. Good luck!

[BliarsGoing]

And get rid of some of the tat on your HDD.... If the print job is a decent size it'll grind as the available space on disk gets swallowed up.

[harveyn]

Many thanks chaps. I have found a fix on the hp website which might help, the printer is an hp psc 1410, I will try it tonight.
Aldi, it is indeed a 1GHz machine. What is the difference between a PCL driver and a PS one, excuse my ignorance.
Harvey

[aldi]

harveyn said:

Many thanks chaps. I have found a fix on the hp website which might help, the printer is an hp psc 1410, I will try it tonight.
Aldi, it is indeed a 1GHz machine. What is the difference between a PCL driver and a PS one, excuse my ignorance.
Harvey

They're different languages that printers speak, some printers are ace as PS (postscript) but for HP its very much the second language, PCL is HP's bag.