Recently (past few months), printing has become a major headache for me on my computer. I cannot figure out why it has become so painfully slow. It doesn't matter what application I use to generate the print job; it sends it to the spooler quite quickly. Once the spooler has it, it can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 10 minutes to get around to waking the printer up, then sometimes upwards of another 10 minutes to get around to actually sending the print job to the printer.
Printer: Brother DCP-8080DN
Connection: wired ethernet
This is from 2 different Windows 10 computers. From my Linux computer, print jobs are practically instant, just like they used to be from the Windows computers until a few months ago.
I have uninstalled and re-installed the Brother drivers multiple times trying to solve this. I have deleted and re-defined the IP printer ports (because if I don't, each time I re-install the printer I get yet another IP printer port since it refuses to all me to use an existing one!).
I have cleared the print spooler as noted in multiple other "slow printing" articles such as:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/window-10-very-slow-spooler/8e45a1ab-2db1-4247-a71f-b4c5c5d8bf541
Documents can be as simple as a 10 word sentence in notepad (raw text, nothing fancy) and still take 10-30 minutes to get around to actually printing, while I can send a full page photo from my Linux system and receive it in 30 seconds. I don't think the problem is with the printer.
Any ideas on what else I can try?