Azure Universal Print Slowness
Posted by John107218@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 4 comments
We’ve implemented AUP but the print jobs take too long from start to finish. The polling interval is set to 30 seconds but jobs still take 3+ minutes. Also, print jobs won’t run if the printer is in sleep mode. The printer in question is a Sharp BP-70C45 multifunction device.
Paintrain8284@reddit
We've been having this same issue. I thought I would roll out UP to all of our copy machines (Canon 5840's) as they accept UP natively. I got all new copy machines for us, got them all installed 8 or 9 in total. Set up UP and thought this was going to be awesome for intune.
It sucks. The initial install for the printerless driver is awesome. Then, if they try to actually print? It takes like 2 - 5 minutes sometimes over 10 minutes. Even on fiber, its so weird. I've been just installing the printer driver manually for people and moving them back to local printing because it takes so freakin' long they end up hitting print 9 times. Our employees print big house plans and things like that, so I guess unless its a tiny little document it takes FOREVER compared to what they are used to.
I noticed with employees especially, unless they can see its a direct speed or process upgrade, if you give them something that is actually slower they thing you suck. Im a solo sysadmin. I cant afford to look like an idiot lol. So back to regular printing.
Wonderful_Race_3636@reddit
You should check with Sharp on why they continue to use polling. They should instead be using IPP notifications.
The other reason is because printer’s document format is PDF by default. Some printers can have issues dealing with PDF format due to memory constraints. You can change the printer’s default document format in Universal Print. In the admin portal go to printer’s settings and go under defaults. Check if it’s has OXPS or PWG Raster. Change to either of them and check performance.
You should also ask Sharp on why printing is so slow on their printers.
bakonpie@reddit
it's a tradeoff you have to accept unfortunately
Cooleb09@reddit
As much as I love having print in the cloud and Universal print is really easy and nice to deploy. Unfortunately 'speed of cloud' is just part for the course.