Network Printing Slow

• Friday, March 15, 2013 6:41 PM

   

   
  

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  My network consists of the following

  HP Proliant Server Running running

  Windows 2008 Server R2 with the following services

  Active Directory

  Domain Controller

  DNS

  DHCP

  Routing and Remote Access

  30 Workstations all joined to the active directory and running windows 7

  4 Network printers (HP) all configured with static IP addresses

  The printers are configured on the workstation directly with the printers IP address. 

  The problem I’m having is basically with printing. It comes times when printing is extremely slow. It can take up to 1 hour to print a single page document, and it happens with all the workstations and all the printers. It doesn’t matter what printer the user picks or from what workstations we are printing, it just takes for ever to print. This happens mostly during the day. It  comes times when all of the sudden it starts to print normally again for a couple of hours and then it gets extremely slow again.

  What can be causing this? Obviously is not the printers fault because it happens with all the printers connected to the network and not just with a particular printer. It seems like a server problem maybe a DNS problem?. What steps can I take to solve this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  
  
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