Horrible JSP performance...

I have a page that makes about a 5 to 12 queries against a database and builds the page.  The page is very slow...  I thought the issue was in the database side of things so I concentrated on indexes and the like to speed up the queries.  The good news is the raw queries each take about 0.03 seconds to execute down from about 0.10 per query.  However, all was for naught, the page is still slow.  Is there a better / faster way to do what I'm doing?  Maybe use a SQL GroupBy?  What do you think?
Thanks in advance,
Ross

Here's the page:
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="sql" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql" %>

<%@ page import="java.util.Calendar" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/jsp/taglib.tld" prefix="nvs" %>

<%@ include file="validate.jsp" %>

<sql:setDataSource driver="com.informix.jdbc.IfxDriver"
    var="qdist"
    url="jdbc:informix-sqli://192.168.0.20:1527/dbserver:informixserver=iwc"
    user="appuser"
    password="informix"
/>

<%@ include file="template_top.jsp" %>

        <sql:query var="series"
                   dataSource="${qdist}">
                   select unique(series) from printers_ink where manufacturer='HP';
        </sql:query>
        <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="580" border="0" id="table6">
        <tr>
                  <td colspan="3">
                        <img src="/images/Ink_19.jpg">
                  </td>
        </tr>

<%
    request.setAttribute("internalRequest", "true");
    int stid = 0;
    try {
    stid = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("id"));
    } catch (NumberFormatException npe) {
        out.println("NOT A VALID ID!");
    }
    request.setAttribute("stid", "?id=" + String.valueOf(stid));
    request.setAttribute("address", ";jsessionid=" + sessionBean.getSessionId());
    request.setAttribute("categoryID", "&categoryId=2");
    request.setAttribute("subcategory", "&subcategoryId=");
%>

        <c:forEach items="${series.rows}" var="row">
                      <tr>
                              <td bgColor="#ead143" colSpan="3" height="20" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #666666">
                                    <font class="cartridgeName"><b>&nbsp;<c:out value="${row.series}" /></b></font></td>
                              </tr>
                    <sql:query var="names"
                        dataSource="${qdist}">
                        SELECT * FROM printers_ink WHERE series = ? ORDER BY printer_name
                    <sql:param value="${row.series}" />
                    </sql:query>
                    <c:set var="count" value="0" />
                    <c:forEach items="${names.rows}" var="col">
                        <c:if test="${col.category_id != null}">
                        <c:set var="url" value="http://www.domain.com/arw/subcategory_select.jsp"/>
                        </c:if>
                         <c:if test="${col.category_id == null}">
                        <c:set var="url" value="http://www.domain.com/arw/outofstock.jsp"/>
                        </c:if>

                        <c:if test="${count == '2'}">
                                <td width="33%" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">
                                  <a href="<c:out value="${url}" /><c:out value="${address}" /><c:out value="${stid}" /><c:out value="${categoryID}" /><c:out value="${subcategory}" /><c:out value="${col.category_id}" />">
                                  <c:out value="${col.printer_name}" /> </a></td>
                                </tr>
                                <c:set var="count" value="3" />
                        </c:if>

                        <c:if test="${count == '1'}">
                                <td  width="33%" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">
                                <a href="<c:out value="${url}" /><c:out value="${address}" /><c:out value="${stid}" /><c:out value="${categoryID}" /><c:out value="${subcategory}" /><c:out value="${col.category_id}" />">
                                <c:out value="${col.printer_name}" /> </a></td>
                                <c:set var="count" value="2" />
                        </c:if>

                        <c:if test="${count == '0'}">
                            <tr>
                                <td  width="33%" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">
                                <a href="<c:out value="${url}" /><c:out value="${address}" /><c:out value="${stid}" /><c:out value="${categoryID}" /><c:out value="${subcategory}" /><c:out value="${col.category_id}" />">
                                <c:out value="${col.printer_name}" /> </a></td>
                            <c:set var="count" value="1" />
                        </c:if>
                       <c:if test="${count == '3'}">
                            <c:set var="count" value="0" />
                       </c:if>
                     </c:forEach>
            </c:forEach>
          </table>
  <%@ include file="template_bottom.jsp" %>