Slow Printing with HP 940 C

I haven't posted here for quite a while but was wondering if anyone has ever found a way to speed up the printing. When I was using OS 9 and I hit "print", the printer responded instantaneously and was quick. Ever since I upgraded to OS 10 it has always been slow. When I hit print now it takes about 10-20 secs to respond, then another 10-20 secs to begin printing. I have always upgraded to the latest drivers etc with no real help (but not recently). Using a G4 400mgh, OS 10.3.9. HP 940C printer. Have 920mg RAM, original HD of 10gigs.
Thanks,
Glen

Glen, as Carl mentions, you might give different Drivers a try.
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/
Try one of these, it could be a huge improvment. Don

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