This one is driving me nuts! We have an MFD on each floor here, as well as several desktop printers (various HP Laserjet, all network connected). I've been notified that printing of PDFs to these, in particular PDFs of scanned documents, is very slow, and so I've tested and confirmed that that is the case.
What's odd is that our print server is more than adequate hardware-wise, and the network certainly isn't a bottleneck here. Print server is running Server 2012 R2, and render print jobs on client computers is selected. With the exception of one of the older printers, all are using HP's latest UPD (PCL6). The other is using PCL5.
I've tried:
- Printing as image with Adobe Reader
- Printing from Foxit Reader
- Disabling advanced printing features
- Changing to the PCL5 drivers
- Turning off render jobs on client computers
- Turning down DPI within printer...