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    Why is it that my puter slows down when browsing the internet if I am printing in the background? If I am printing out a few pages at a time, it takes a long time to go from url to url and pages open very slowly. I have a p3-550eb sys with 384mb pc133. Printer is a hp712c.Thanks, Frank.

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    The printer is a Windows based printer. Meaning that it uses the CPU from your computer to print. Go to a regular printer that does its own processing and you won't have that problem.

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    What do you mean by a regular printer. Do you have any examples?

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    What is your Parallel Port set to? SPP, ECP. or EPP, Try setting your Parallel Port setting to ECP or ECP + EPP in your BIOS. Tell me how it goes.

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    HP DeskJets have drivers that suck on your processor like a starving baby. I'm not sure how to get around that, or even if there is a way.

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    i have seen HP printers run the spu up to 100% use when printing...this was on a p3450 and a p3500

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    Really??? I use a HP Deskjet 950c ECP Mode and I see the CPU utilization fluctuate between 42% ~ 67%. Never any higher. It gives me NO visible decrease on CPU performance.

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    We'll, I changed the bios setting from spp to ecp+epp and did not notice any difference. Especially slow is browsing down my long list of favorites. I thought the printer has a buffer memory that stores what you are printing, freeing up the cpu, am I wrong? Perhaps the hp712c has a small buffer. I print out alot of technical articles for my job, and it is at the point I should think about a new printer. Are they all like this or is there a printer that will not drain my cpu resources? thanks frank

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    For optimum performance get a print server

    Zero performance hit when printing documents.. heh..


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