When printing, how can I spool/process on the printer itself, rather than process the job in Illustrator?

Is this related to setting up a PPD?
We are using an HP Designjet T7100 plotter to print out large wall maps (108"x108") with incredible amounts of detail (about 30 layers, with varying transparency, and everything from mid-sized polygons and lines to thousands of points).  It's an enormous job, I know, but certainly possible.  The workflow involves creating EPS layers, and running them through Distiller to create PDFs which are obviously the map layers.
In the past, we have been successful in printing out high-resolution maps.  We are now experiencing "Out of Memory" errors if we try to print from InDesign, and Illustrator takes well near an hour to process a map.
This morning, we printed a 42x60 map in low-res - the map printed successfully, albeit in about 20 mins.  After printing, I went to the plotter, selected the job from the front panel, and re-printed it from there.  It took 30 seconds to print.
Obviously, the job was already processed on the plotter and that made printing easier.  My question is, is there a way to get the plotter to process jobs rather than Illustrator?  How can I set spooling to be handled directly by the printer?  Illustrator is using 2GB of memory just to process jobs - absolutely ridiculous.
I appreciate any feedback!  Hopefully from Adobe
Thanks,
C
EDIT:  I also wonder if this is a network issue?

Hello there! Welcome to the forums @kmmo 
I read your post about how you are trying to cancel a print job from the printer. I would like to know if you see an "X" on the printer display screen while the print job is in progress, and if so, try pressing the "X" and that should cancel the job.
Let me know your findings
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