Shared Printers Slow to Appear in Printer Broswer

We have an all Mac Network hosted by a Dual 2GHz G5 running 10.4.9 Server. I have setup 7 shared printers on the server for easy access and printing from any of our workstations.
It seems like sometimes when adding new printers to a new workstation config, the printer browser takes longer that I would expect to populate the window with the shared printer queues. Also even if I have a Selected Printer in Print Dialog set to a specific shared printer, sometimes the first time I attempt to print, I may not get that printer first. Furthermore, the first time I print, the print dialog box takes an abnormally amount of time to appear, much slower than if I installed the print driver locally and configured a printer to point to the IP address of the printer.
Any suggestions that could possibly speed this up?

Hello,
I don't really have ideas, but maybe you should have a look to the "browse" directive.
Maybe all your mac try to send and get printers entries, so it makes everything slow...
Try "Browsing Off" in the /etc/cupsd.conf of your clients (and client.conf should contain ServerName yourserver.local) then restart print service.
Just a clue... hope it could help.

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We have an environment that has a Windows 2012R2 Print Server, that is sharing various printers which are also set to List in Directory. Some of the printers are HP and are using the HP Universal driver which shows as "True" for Packaged in
the print management window, and some of the printers are Canon which are using device specific drivers and show as "False" for Packaged. My understanding is that the packaged attribute simply indicates that Point and Print can then download
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Hi someone,
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REMOVE FILES
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2. Double click on the LIBRARY folder
3. Double click on the PRINTERS folder
4. Drag the EPSON folder to the trash can
NOTE If you receive an access denied error message, this indicates that
you do not have root access. You will need to contact Apple for assistance
on obtaining Root Access.
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DRIVERS.PKG
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It sounds like you edited the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf?
And then used migration assistant so it kept the
configuration?
If so, I recommend you try going to that directory in
the Terminal, then rename your current cupsd.conf to
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HT1150 I have two shared printers and I want to be able to select the printer when it is time to print without having to set a default EACH time. Can I just have a prompt to ask me which printer to use???

I have two shared printers and I want to be able to select one printer when it is time to print without having to set a default EACH time. Can I just have a prompt or dialog box that will ask me which printer would you like to use??? The only options I can find are "default" and "Last printer used" which means I must go into the Print & Fax area and change the default EACH time I want to print??? Seems very low tech.....

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Can I just have a prompt or dialog box that will ask me which printer would you like to use???
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I've spent some time on this investigating via google as well as experimenting with drivers, and it appears that if you spool this printer of a Windows 2003 server and you have the latest MS patches, then you can only print if you have administrator priveleges over the server. It doesn't matter at the workstation end. However, it does appear that some of our printers are unaffected, and I can't believe that the users who continue to print okay have admin priveleges on the server.
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