One Thing I Can’t Stand on a Mac: Lag on Print at Josh Kim dot Org

One Thing I Can’t Stand on a Mac: Lag on Print

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on February 2, 2008

. Tags: Apple, mac, printing.

Sometimes I accidentally press cmd + p when I actually wanted to press cmd + [.

The entire computer freezes up, and I swear inside, as I sit in front of my computer for 3 seconds while the beach ball spins and aggravates my innards.

Is it just me? Does anyone else have this problem with the print dialog taking a bit longer than it should be taking?

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Alex 8 months ago 1 point
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It's pretty much instantaneous for me..... dunno what your deal is. Maybe it's trying to find a network printer that you don't have?

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Josh Kim 8 months ago 1 point
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I don't even have printer drivers installed on this computer, heh.

It seems like if I access the printer dialog box, then do it again, the lag is pretty much gone from caching. But it's when I haven't tried to print anything to pdf in a while where it gets a little buggy in my book.

Maybe it is all me...

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Partners in Grime 8 months ago 1 point
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Nope, the print dialog box pops up instantaneously here ... less than a second.

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KenC 8 months ago 1 point
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Well, without lots of detail, who knows what the problem is. Does it happen in Adobe Reader, or also in Preview? What Mac are you using? Is your version of Adobe Reader running in Classic mode? Have you looked at your logs, to see if there's something the OS is looking for, that's causing the delay?

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Josh Kim 8 months ago 1 point
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It happens in Preview and FireFox and Safari, at least. Nothing shows up in the logs: I feel like this isn't a bug, but it's probably something I'm just getting a little mildly annoyed at.

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Jeffsters 8 months ago 1 point
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I just tried it with this page in Safari. Pretty basic updated install of 10.5 and sure enough it took more than 5 seconds from the time I pressed Command-P until the sheet came down to print. Now, having said that every time I did it after that it was instantaneous. It's printing to a wireless printer using Bonjour. It was still instantaneous switching to a LaserWriter 8500. So in my case first time print, 5 seconds, after that instantaneous. Not sure what's up.

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DavidK 8 months ago 1 point
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Printer Setup Utility includes a Reset Printing System feature. Try it. It seems to work for printing problems such as you have explained. Good Luck

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ChapH 8 months ago 1 point
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3 whole seconds? You need to learn to relax! :-)

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Josh Kim 8 months ago 1 point
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@DavidK: Yeah, I tried that before, but to no avail. Thanks, though.

@ChapH: Hehe. I'm just pointing out that this lag is almost disruptive in my workflow. It'd be fine if I was used to 3 seconds, but nowhere else in the OS do I have that weird lag.

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