A week ago I decided to make use of the HP deskjet 1010 that I received for free when I bought my microserver.
It is pretty basic one but supports color and prints fairly fast. But the only problem I had with it is that the USB cable is too short so that I have to take my laptop near the printer every time I wanted to print something.
So I decided to connect the printer to my old server box and set up CUPS for printing over the network.
Everything went through fine but after I installed the printer opening the printer dialog box took an eternity every time I tried using it.
The problem seems to lie in the IPP handler of Windows. Somehow there is a bug in Windows that makes IPP settings and Windows internet security settings get mixed up resulting delays.
Adding the CUPS server to Internet Explorer’s Intranet zone can be a workaround.
Open Internet Explorer -> Tools -> Internet options and add the following:
where the address is the CUPS server’s IP address. You may skip this step if the printer is in your LAN but I decided to do it anyway.
Then go to LAN settings and uncheck “Automatically detect settings”
It will fix most of the problems.
We are a printer service company. Most of the time and we mean 90% of the time it is the pdf print and this can be solved by tweaking some settings, If the word print and copy is fast then it is the pdf and the settings change would clear the issue.