Slow Printing on RDS on Server 2008 R2

We have resently upgraded from a 2000 Terminal server to a 2008 R2 Remote desktop Server. The clients are running XP Pro and have SP3 installed and .net Framework 3.5 SP1.
Users are complaining that printing is very slow on the new system and there is a noticable difference when printing.
We are using the Windows Easy Print to redirect users printers, we do not have any drivers or printers installed on the RDS itself as we want to soley use Easy Print as we have a number of home users all with different printers and most do not have 64bit
drivers available.
I have disabled TCP Chimney Offload, RSS and Receive Windows Auto-Tuning Level on the server but this has had no effect.
Please can you advise on the best course of action to improve printing speeds.

Hi,
Easy Print is a new feature since Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services. In the process of Easy
Print, the Easy Print universal driver acts as a proxy and redirects all the UI calls to the driver on the client. The performance of the feature quite depends on the related drivers which supports Easy Print. In such a case, please consider to check the following
two factors:
· Check the official website of the printer and install the most updated printer driver supporting
Easy Print for your printer.
· Update the driver for the network adapter on both the server and the client side.
Besides, here is a known issue described on the following KB article and please take it as reference:
FIX: After you apply hotfix 954744, printing performance may be significantly slower when
you print documents by using Terminal Services Easy Print
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=954743
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