Why did my printer suddenly start printing slow and pausing periodically?

Question

It had been working fine until yesterday. Now when I hit the print button it seems to take forever for the information to get to the printer. It prints a little then pauses then prints more. I can't seem to figure out what caused this and how to fix it.

Answer 1

Try to restart both, printer and computer, if doesn't fix the problem try reinstalling the drivers
Good luck
Have you changed the printing quality settings, if you changed the resolution or choose a higher quality that can be the cause also.

Answer 2

depends ...what kind of printer is ?

1. restart the computer and the printer.
2. check the settings related with resolution / quality. if is set to much bigger or higher quality could be much slower.
3.check the print queue right after you sent a page to your printer. You can see there how big (in Kbytes) is the print job. Maybe the printer is OK but the rip time is longer because of a huge size of that print job. When you print in postscript should be a much smaller print job that a PCL.

Answer 3

there are extremely some solutions as to why a printer ought to print sluggish - drivers, usb ports, etc. yet while the laptop and printer are new, then touch your vendor and clarify, or use a help line in case you have one. If not, then take the equipment lower back to the save. that may not ok. My previous daisy-wheel became miles swifter than that on an previous Atari! (i ought to bypass on with reference to the traits of Vista, yet I won't!)

Answer 4

Go to printer properties and check the ink lever first. Most of time this happens the ink is low. If the color is faded the ink is low too.

Answer 5

Chances are it's either jammed, or the ink is low and must be forced out of the cartrage.

Answer 6

either the program u are running to word porocess is taking the RAM and CPU, or ur RAM disk is to big

Answer 7

you need a new one ok