Lagging and Painfully Slow Devices and Printers in Windows 10 August 30, 2016October 25, 2018 Raza Ali Kazmi Sorcim Articles, Windows Printing a document, image etc has become a matter of a few clicks nowadays. Gone are those days when we had to rush to the computer market to get a simple document printed. Now, most of us have printers at our homes with which we can easily print as many documents, images as we like. Sometimes the whole printing experience is ruined courtesy a software issue. The trouble lies somewhere between the Printer’s driver, Windows etc. Let’s look at the software elements that might create any issues in a printing job. Printer & Slow Devices? Fix: ST Cleaner Your System: Windows, English? Speed up PC & Devices? Download Repair Tool ST Cleaner is compatible with Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP By clicking to download, you agree to these Terms See Features & Functions Optimize Windows 10 Windows 10 can be safely termed as a myriad of extremely sophisticated computer programming, algorithms etc. All of this programming is supposed to facilitate users from a vast majority of fields perform their routine tasks in an efficient manner. However, this also means that sometimes some of the functionality isn’t required at all by a user, but is still somehow up and running on his/ her computer. That is where a PC Optimizer steps in and does the trick. Set Plain Paper Type A certain menu in the Print dialog box helps you set various attributes for the print. Select Plain Paper for optimum print quality. Open the Print dialog box. Select your printer. Click Properties. Set the Media Type to Plain Paper. Set Printer Defaults Default printer values like colors, paper size, intensity, orientation, layout, margins, duplex etc can be set by following this procedure. Repeat steps # 1-3 from the Set Plain Paper Type section. Under Quick Setup, Main and Page Setup, click Default. Click OK. Connect the Printer to a High-Speed USB Port USB Ports are classified based on their capacity to handle large volumes of data in the given period of time. USB 3.0 can handle data up to 60 Mbps. Use a High-Speed USB Port to connect your printer to the computer to augment its performance. Disable Antivirus The Real-Time Scan feature of your Antivirus might be eating up a whole lot of resources while it is active in the background, and that as a consequence, would be affecting your printer’s performance. It should be paused until you’ve completed the print job. Right-click the Antivirus icon on the far-right corner of the Taskbar. Select Pause Protection. Convert PDF Files to .docx format A Portable Document Format (PDF) takes much longer to process and print when compared to Microsoft Office Word Document (.docs and .doc) formats. So you can easily shorten the time it takes for the document to be actually printed by saving it in any of the Microsoft Office Word Document formats. Lower the Print Quality Lower quality printouts take much quicker to be processed and can be read quite easily. Configure your printer to print to a lower / lowest standard (whichever suits you) to boost up the printing process.