Slow Printing in Windows 7

We are currently going through an upgrade from XP to Windows 7 for our fleet and all seems to be going ok but printing has started to become slow and sometimes printing does not work at all and then works the following day.
We are changing from XP 32bit to Win 7 64 bit and we are upgrading our iPrint service to the virtual appliance from Novell for Windows 7 only.
The printing is intermittent between users and machine and sometimes even applications. For example we have one user who was working fine for the last few weeks but yesterday could not print Word, Excel or PDF on a machine but today can print everything.
Another user on the same machine has not had issues (that have been reported).
I have tried setting up the network printer as direct IP to se if there was any difference and yesterday via the iPrint client which has direct IP enabled and the TCP/IP printer set up it took 3 minutes to print a test page for the printer via both services.
I don't believe this is a Novell iPrint issue and I have even changed driver from the UPD to the Win7 OS driver for the HP LaserJet P4015. I have also had the same issue on a Ricoh MP 2550B printer.
So having checked drivers, printers and iPrint server, I am now wondering is it either networking or something inside Win 7 and one of it's own services causing this. Would really like some help as at a loss to explain this to users and find a fix.

I would suggest you to check with the manufacturer first for any Win 7 specific settings.
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