Printing too slow through Terminal services over WAN
Do you have your terminal server on DSL line that has low upload bandwidth? Maybe 256Kbit or so?
Yes? We had setup one server on this bandwidth. If you users are just connecting to server and typing something there, in 256 colors (8bit) client speed experience will be just fine.
Then after users type something in word document or something else, they want that on paper. No problem, file > print.
Spooler service is sending file big few megabytes to client printer, although user type one page.
We want to minimize spooler job to be small as possible, because we have very slow connection for printing ih high resolution.
First thing is to lower DPI from 1200 to 300 or so. This will speed up printing a lot.
On HP printers (that we often use on terminal services because lots of HP printers are certified with terminal services) there is one more option to set that can speed up print process.
Disable advanced printing options in:
Printing Preferences -> Paper Quality -> Advanced -> Document Options -> Advanced Printing Features (Disable).
Now user printing should be much faster than before.