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WinNT 3.51 w/ CPU Maxed Prints Very Slowly to Banding Printers

Article ID: 152309

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51

This article was previously published under Q152309

SYMPTOMS

Windows NT version 3.51 does not print as efficiently as Windows NT 3.5 does to banding printers (for example, the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet & BubbleJet). Printing a single page can take 30 minutes. This only happens when an application is fully utilizing the CPU.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, use the Windows NT 3.5 PARPORT.SYS driver. You must shutdown and restart Windows NT after you replace the driver.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.51. Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.51. This problem was corrected in the latest Windows NT 3.51 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords: kbprint KB152309