Odd Printer sharing issues

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> Hi all, first post here and hopefully someone can see what Im missing
> here, coz its driving me nuts!!!
>
> Ok here is the scenario. I have my desktop PC installed with Windows
> Vista Ultimate Ed (32 bit). This PC is hard wired into my WRT54G
> (tomato firmware) router. Connect to this PC I have an Epson CX5000
> printer that is shared on the network. My shareing is password
> protected and the user who needs to connect to my shares is set up on
> Vista also.
>
> The other PC is a Laptop with Vista Home Premium (32 bit) installed.
> The laptop connects and accesses all shares fine (both read and write)
> and sees my Printer fine. I have set this printer up on the laptop and
> all seems ok.
>
> Until that is I print from applications on the laptop.
> When I send a print job from say Word, it takes over 5 mins to actually
> start the printer and print. During this time Word goes into (not
> responding) and will stay that way until the print job is complete. Its
> not just word either, tried wordpad, Notepad, IE, and they all take upto
> 5 mins to print a single page!.
>
> I have checked the event logs on my main PC and I dont see anything
> untoward. The computer connects with the right credentials and
> disconnects cleanly. It just takes an age to print a page. This is
> driving my wife nuts (who is the user of the Laptop) as her PC
> basically becomes unresponsive while it does a simple print job.
>
> Im totally running out of ideas, I have disabled Firewalls, Password
> protected sharing etc, etc and it still does it. I have moved the
> Laptop so its right next to the Router and it still does it (so its not
> a wirless signal issue).
>
> Copying files is fine to and from the PC's is nice and fast no slow
> downs etc...
>
> Im tearing out whats remainging of my very thin hair here.... any
> ideas???
>
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> Cythrawl