I have had a problem that has been driving me crazy for over a month. I know this post is going to be very lengthy, out of logical order, and probably poorly written, but I want to try to include the history and symptoms as well as everything (or almost everything) that I have tried. Also, I use copiers and printers interchangeably in this post, be ye forewarned.
I am going to give the current setup as that is what I am targeting an answer for.
I have a VM setup running 2012 R2, fully patched. VM has 4GB of ram, one socket with two cores assigned, one VMXNET3 connection, and one vdisk that has two partitions (80gb and 20 gb). The server hosts 10 networked copiers (more on that a bit later) connected with ip ports, and has approximately 25 paused print queues printing to LPT1. The print queues are used for different print jobs to be...