Good afternoon everyone, I have a bit of a predicament here. Print jobs sent to a standard IP printer are taking forever to send. I think the culprit may be in how the print jobs are routing. We have two sites with a point to point T1 connecting them (currently in the process of upgrading to fiber). Servers are at site A, printer/user are at Site B. user at site b prints a large print job (2-50 pages of very detailed imagery) and the job takes anywhere from 2-70 minutes to send to the printer that's right next to her and start printing. Factoring in their average network load during business hours, their maximum supported link speed, and the speed at which the print job sends to the printer, it appears that the print job is being sent from Site B computer >>T1>> Site A servers >>T1>> Site B printer. This poses a huge problem for us, they use an average of 60-90% of that T1 link at any given time (another major reason for the fiber upgrade). Is there any way to confirm that this is happening? If it is, how can I get the computer to just send it to the local IP? What are some other potential causes of this? Thanks in advance, Jon Thanks!

Hello, If they are network shared printers hosted by your print server in SiteA, then you are correct that print jobs are sent from SiteB clients to SiteA print server, then sent back to SiteB printers. You may setup a local print server so the print jobs dont have to be sent cross sites. Thanks Zhang