XPS Printer Driver overheads...
All, I am using the Microsoft XPS printer driver specification to print documents to HP and Canon Based network printers. My question is, when the Temp.XPS in %Temp% and convert to the local printer queue, this process is EXTREMELY CPU intensive. On my HT Duel core laptop (4 cores), 4 GB Ram Windows 7 device it consumes on average 40% CPU usage in the spooling phase. (It also seems to break the spooling into 3 parts, if you click on the locally attached printer queue you can see 3 individual spools for the 1 printer job). This is not so much an issue on the laptop devices as they are very high speced, but the issue affects user experience when they use the HP Thin Client devices. We have purchased the top of the range duel core 1.7 GHZ HP Thin client, but as soon as a job is spooled on the client device using the XPS printing format the device flat lines at 100% CPU and long pauses between pages are experienced when printing... My question: Is XPS Printing universally resource hungry ? especially CPU? Has anyone else noticed this when printing XPS?
July 26th, 2010 2:44am

Hi, I understand that the printer spool uses high CPU usage. This usually happens if the printer spooler folder is filled up with unwanted files. To resolve this, please manually remove printed files: 1) Click Start, type: Services in the Start Search box. 2) Within services locate Printer Spooler, right click it and select stop. 3) Go to the folder: C:\Windows\System32\Spool\PRINTERS, delete all files in the PRINTERS folder. 4) Go back to Printer Spooler service and start it. Sometimes it can be caused by viruses, spywares or worms. Many malicious programs are known to disguise themselves as spoolsv.exe. To remove and prevent malicious, viruses, spyware and worms from infecting your computer, please update your anti-virus and anti-spyware to the latest version, then perform a full scan. Best Regards DalePlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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July 27th, 2010 12:14pm

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