Mac OS 10.6 Print Server slow performance to Xerox Phaser 3600

Hi,
I have a client who has numberous printers captured on a Mac OS X 10.6 Server with print services running which works fine with every printer except for a Xerox Phaser 3600 (small A4 mono postscript printer) in that print jobs sent to it via the print server take upto 5 minutes to printer. If the client computers print direct then it is fine and very speedy.
Below is some more detail and any help or suggestions with this would be greatly appreciates.
• Printer server is a MacMini running Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 v1.1
• Xerox 3600 printer is a small A4 mono postscript printer.
• Printing direct to printer is instant, via the print server can take up to 5 minutes.
• The print server has various other printers setup and they are not experiencing the same performance problem.
• The print server is using the LPD protocol but they have tried the IPP protocol and again it is slow.
• When they send a job to print it remains in the users local print monitor and the servers print monitor for up to 5 minutes.
• The Xerox printer is running the latest firmware update.
• The print server is using a Xerox downloaded driver as opposed to one of Apple OS shipped drivers.
• Checked Xerox compatibility list and this printer is fully supported in 32bit and 64bit applications.
• Restarted printer.
• Test jobs have been small TextEdit plain text tests.
Thanks in advance
Anton

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