Why is printing slow?

Printing from Adobe products, more specifically Acrobat, to Xerox printer (DocuCentre IV – C3373) takes a long time to spool (Mac OSX Mountain Lion).
A 2mb file takes around 2 minutes to spool, 20mb 20 minutes.
Have had Xerox technicians on the case, they seem to think it is Adobe product related since the correct drivers are installed and printing from Office, Preview and Safari are instantaneous. Previous printer was a Xerox Phaser, quite outdated, but it spooled within seconds.
Does anyone have any similar issues?

Yes - the status of the printer says that it is spooling - this goes on for a 3 minutes.
Do you think it is a printer issue.
Thank you

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