Compared to what? On what devices? How large are the print jobs?

Printing has several different bottlenecks.

In a computer lab, where you have control over the workstations and the printer, having the workstations and the printer on the same IP subnet and the same physical network switch will permit the workstations to communicate with the printer as rapidly as possible.

Then you get to settings on the workstations. Printing can take a lot of computing resources, and often requires a lot of disk I/O to queue the job locally. So a solid state disk on the workstation as its OS drive, at least, will enable the job to be built and spooled quickly.

Use a 3rd party print driver, they will have optimizations built in that a generic driver may not.

Enable immediate spooling. This allows the spooler to start queuing the job with the printer the moment that the first page is "ready" or the moment that the top of the page is rendered. This allows printing to start prior to the job being rendered on the workstation.

Does it really need to be 1200 DPI super ultra resolution? Defaulting the resolution or color depth lower for default prints will reduce the amount of data being sent.

Compared to what? On what devices? How large are the print jobs?Printing has several different bottlenecks. In the "being smart" category: In a computer lab, where you have control over the workstations and the printer, having the workstations and the printer on the same IP subnet and the same physical network switch will permit the workstations to communicate with the printer as rapidly as possible.Then you get to settings on the workstations. Printing can take a lot of computing resources, and often requires a lot of disk I/O to queue the job locally. So a solid state disk on the workstation as its OS drive, at least, will enable the job to be built and spooled quickly.Use a 3rd party print driver, they will have optimizations built in that a generic driver may not.Enable immediate spooling. This allows the spooler to start queuing the job with the printer the moment that the first page is "ready" or the moment that the top of the page is rendered. This allows printing to start prior to the job being rendered on the workstation.Does it really need to be 1200DPI super ultra resolution? Defaulting the resolution or color depth lower for default prints will reduce the amount of data being sent.n getting gigabit from end to end. Then focus on reducing the size of the job data and on

We currently use some horrible cloud based print solution which is so abysmally slow its laughable. So I am somewhat nostalgiv for the "good old days" of direct printing.

Thanks dear Robert Mahar ;

very good information...