All printers printing slow.

Thank you for the response and documentation.  While it does grant me insight into the process, my goal is to improve these time metrics as the business which is piloting Universal Print prints thousands of pages a day; many individual user workflows will exceed 100+ individual print jobs per day.  So, going from a 2 second response to a 45 second response for each one is simply not viable to sustain their workflow.  Naturally we can try to reduce the need for such high printing traffic, but the point of Universal Print is...to print, I believe - and the organization is very interested in continuing to print at the same rate for now.

Universal Print is failing to "keep up" with their printing traffic needs, essentially.

The printer management benefits on the other hand are quite useful to the organization so if I am able to improve the print times in any manner then it is still possible to retain their use of Universal Print.

While I know you have implied that we cannot expect any improvement in performance from Microsoft's end on this in the near future, I am hopeful that you can disclose what type of network traffic Universal Print uses so that we may attempt Quality of Service and traffic shaping measures to improve these slow print times.

Any other tactics which you may recommend beyond "don't use the connector" would also be welcome; I only use the connector for models which do not support universal print, however, in my experience the print times are not noticeably different regardless of whether the connector is in use or not.