If your workstation is bogging down due to printing, increase the timing interval when you load NPRINTER. This is done by adding the /T=num option to the NPRINTER command, where num is in the range 1 to 9.
The higher the tick setting, the faster the overall workstation performance, but with this increase in overall performance comes a decrease in printing performance.
A timer tick value of 2 takes twice as long to service a job as a timer tick value of 1. The allowable range is 1-9.
The timer tick value in polled mode is proportional to the length of time a job will take to print, assuming that the printer is capable of printing at the data throughput speed.