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dschuh
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« on: June 05, 2015, 10:15:19 PM »
All,

I recently purchased an Epson R2000 printer.  My previous printer the R1900 fell victim to a lightning strike to my house that took out many other devices in my house even though I had all protected with an APC battery backup.  I have setup the R2000 as a wireless printer and all is working well for the most part.  When I go to print, the prints seem to take much longer to produce than they did on my R1900.  I'm wondering if I'm missing a setting or something.  I'm also wondering if the printer port should be set to "high speed (RAW)" as opposed to "LPR printing", it's currently set the the LPR setting.  My router is an Asus RT-AC87U and the printer is connected to the 2G network.  Not sure if there are optimal settings within the printer that should be set (i.e. fixed vs auto settings).  Any help would be appreciated.  Now to get working on ICC profiles.

Thanks,

Dave
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« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2015, 09:06:12 AM »
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All,

I recently purchased an Epson R2000 printer.  My previous printer the R1900 fell victim to a lightning strike to my house that took out many other devices in my house even though I had all protected with an APC battery backup.  I have setup the R2000 as a wireless printer and all is working well for the most part.  When I go to print, the prints seem to take much longer to produce than they did on my R1900.  I'm wondering if I'm missing a setting or something.  I'm also wondering if the printer port should be set to "high speed (RAW)" as opposed to "LPR printing", it's currently set the the LPR setting.  My router is an Asus RT-AC87U and the printer is connected to the 2G network.  Not sure if there are optimal settings within the printer that should be set (i.e. fixed vs auto settings).  Any help would be appreciated.  Now to get working on ICC profiles.

Thanks,

Dave

Hi Dave,
(I love my R2000, and Terry loves his)

Ok Prints take longer to produce..... not sure what that means.
I I have my R2000 coupled to the computer by USB and also by WIFI.
I can select either delivery method from Qimage or any other output.
My wife can print to the R2000 via WIFI if she needs to.

All that said, the Wireless feed of print data is noticeably slower than USB, but the printing seems to be the same.
The setup that works best is seen in the two screen snaps attached.


Hope this helps Dave, and since I have an R2000, feel free to ask as much as you like... and I will be able to reply (hopefully with good answers) on point.

Fred
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« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2015, 04:43:42 PM »
Fred,

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I was away from the computer all weekend.  I guess to clarify my "prints take longer to produce" statement, the printer will print a few lines and stop like it's waiting for more data, then it will print a few more lines and stop, etc.  A 4x6 print took about 2 minutes to complete.  The actual print that came out looked great.  My setup matches your screen captures.  I've also included a few screen snaps of my printer port setup for comparison.

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Dave
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« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2015, 05:03:33 PM »
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I've also included a few screen snaps of my printer port setup for comparison.

Dave,
I just made a couple of 8 x 10s glossy using wireless set at LPR and one set to RAW... Raw seemed a tad faster, but certainly no hesitations.
Is the router close enough to the printer?

What is the setting in the Qimage Preferences.? See screen snap

Fred
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« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2015, 05:15:48 PM »
Fred,

My Qimage settings match yours.   I tried one with the RAW setting and it may have been a bit faster but not much.  My router is about 6 ft. away from the printer.  I'll play around with it some more this weekend when I have more time to mess with settings, etc.  I guess I can always fall back to a wired (Ethernet) connection or USB...was just trying to lessen the clutter of wires wherever I can.

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Dave
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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2015, 07:45:04 PM »
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My Qimage settings match yours.   I tried one with the RAW setting and it may have been a bit faster but not much.  My router is about 6 ft. away from the printer.  I'll play around with it some more this weekend when I have more time to mess with settings, etc.  I guess I can always fall back to a wired (Ethernet) connection or USB...was just trying to lessen the clutter of wires wherever I can.

Dave,
Might want to investigate the router's data speed vs the newer ones.
I got a new one from Verizon which pepped up data and movie streaming and all my gadgets .

Fred
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« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2015, 02:11:20 PM »
Fred,

The router is brand new as well and is a very fast router (Asus RT-AC87U 802.11ac router).  The old router (only a year old) got hit by the lightning strike too (it was the predecessor AC68U).  I'm sure it's a setting I'm missing.  I'm going to try assigning it an fixed IP address and set wireless modes, speeds etc. manually rather than using the auto settings.  I'm also using jumbo frames on the router and PC but not sure how/if that affects printer communications.  I'll report back after trying some things this weekend.

Thanks,

Dave
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« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2015, 11:30:59 PM »
Fred,

Just reporting back.  I set a fixed IP address on my router, fixed the channel bandwidth at 40 MHz, enabled IGMP snooping, and enabled adaptive QoS.  I have now printed a 4x6 in about 35 seconds wirelessly.  Needless to say I am happy with the results.  Now I'll work on making profiles, although the ones I downloaded from Epson were not too shabby to start with.

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Dave
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« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2015, 06:17:07 AM »
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Just reporting back.  I set a fixed IP address on my router, fixed the channel bandwidth at 40 MHz, enabled IGMP snooping, and enabled adaptive QoS.  I have now printed a 4x6 in about 35 seconds wirelessly.  Needless to say I am happy with the results.  Now I'll work on making profiles, although the ones I downloaded from Epson were not too shabby to start with.

Thanks,
Dave

Glad you brought us up to date and especially successfully.
Frankly, your explanation is above my "pay grade", or over my head, so to speak.
I will make sure Mike sees your post, and I will ask him to explain it to me.  (Qos, IGMP snooping?)


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Fred
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« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2015, 08:43:53 PM »
Fred,

Sorry, must be my Engineering geek side coming out  Grin. In basic terms IGMP is a traffic cop that routes traffic efficiently to the right device and QoS allows you to assign priorities to certain types of traffic.  I had played around with a lot of settings turning things on/off but it wasn't until I enabled the QoS that I saw the improvement.  I could probably turn off the IGMP and the other things but at this point I haven't seen a down side so as they say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"  Smiley Now I can just enjoy some good prints again!!!

Thanks,

Dave
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« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2015, 08:58:43 PM »
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Sorry, must be my Engineering geek side coming out  Grin. In basic terms IGMP is a traffic cop that routes traffic efficiently to the right device and QoS allows you to assign priorities to certain types of traffic.  I had played around with a lot of settings turning things on/off but it wasn't until I enabled the QoS that I saw the improvement.  I could probably turn off the IGMP and the other things but at this point I haven't seen a down side so as they say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"  Smiley Now I can just enjoy some good prints again!!!

Thanks,

Dave

Thanks Dave,
I needed that explanation. I hate dead end results that I cannot understand, but they work.
Appreciate the extra effort and help
Fred
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