Super Delay in Printing after 10.5.2 update plz help

zynizen · #1 February 20th, 2008, 04:21 PM

Hi,

After updating to 10.5.2, I have an iMac 20" aluminum, and Macbook Pro 15" both wireless using N-only (5Ghz mode) to my Airport Extreme Base Station, connected to a Samsung CLP-500 colour laser printer.

before the update everything printed about 1 to 3 seconds after pressing "print". Now, it takes anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes to actually print the documents, but initializes right away.

The only thing that changed from a working model to a super slow non-working model, is this 10.5.2 update.

Any suggestions???
Thanks a lot!!!

EyeTea · #2 February 21st, 2008, 12:58 AM

Hi zynizen,

I have the same problem (MacBook Pro 15", wireless using N-only Airport Extreme but Samsung CLP-300).

Only when I print a small text-file it prints like before.
Otherwise 8 to 12 minutes.

The only way I've found is to connect the printer directly to MacBook via USB.
I know, it's only a workaround.

I hope we get a better way shortly.

Greetings from Berlin (Germany)

zynizen · #3 February 21st, 2008, 10:02 AM

Hi, thanks for the post! I actually have the CLP-300 as well. I thought for a minute there it was something I'm doing wrong.

Is there anyone else having this issue with other manufacturers? like HP, Lexmark, Epson, etc?

I wish they'd hurry up on bluetooth printing. It'd make things a lot easier.

Thanks,

zynizen · #4 April 4th, 2008, 07:50 PM

I'm still having this issue, now with a different printer, what else can I do? Anyone else suffering?

Satcomer · #5 April 5th, 2008, 03:18 AM

Have you both used a maintenance program to clear the swap files and font cache yet?

zynizen · #6 April 6th, 2008, 01:23 PM

I ran OnyX, and cleaned everything under maintenance, swap, font cache, etc. and still when I go to print, the printer initializes, then just sits at 93% for about 35 mins all the way to 1hr and then spits out the page. Sometimes it doesn't even do that, it will just spit out an error page.

I'm sure I can't be the only one having this issue. I tried to do this on both my iMac and Macbook Pro, same thing.

Thanks again for helping.

simbalala · #7 April 6th, 2008, 02:17 PM

Have look at Printer Setup Repair.

It's pretty powerful. There's a 7 day trial period (I did buy it).

zynizen · #8 April 6th, 2008, 06:33 PM

no doubt this sounds great, but I'm using Leopard 10.5.2, this program isn't available yet for leopard. thanks anyway