I upgraded my home networked printer to an epson c84. I took my old 740 and my daughter's660 (the college girl got a new c84 also) (BestBuy Dsm,Ia $99.99 witha 20.00 rebate) to my office. If that sounds backward, I'm on my computer at home far more than at the office.

In any case. I'm having problems installing either of these printers. I can use the printer okay when I use a driver from the old stylus color esp2 bought in Jan95 that either the660 or the740 printer will replace. Of course I can't see how much ink is in the cartriges with this driver and many options are lost. It does print at a normal speed. When I install the drivers for either machine It seems like everything installs just fine. I can print a test page w/o errors------------ BUT it takes at least 5, if not more, minutes to do!-------- A line is printed then a 30 to 40 second wait then another line and another wait over and over. I've tried emf and raw and print to page directly and tried each different spool setting???????? The machine is a compaq with an amd-k7-600mhz win98se.
My analysis would seem to indicate that the print job seems to be at a very low priority for this computer when using it's driver????

What else might be causing this to happen

Should I disconnect all printers and cables ie not just printers at one end of the cable and boot up at least once without anything on that lpt port---- maybe ever delete it in device manager let windows find it again. etc and try to install again?