2 hrs to print 15 pages ???

[geraldw321]

hi there is there any way to set the printing priority higher ?? it takes forever to get things printed . im printing regular pdf or doc documents on a hp officejet and it just slows to a crawl and stops for severl minutes at a time . and even if i stop all other tasks it is still taking forever too print RRRRRRRRRR irritating

[ghmitch]

That seems strange to me. What sort of CPU does your system have? And how much system memory? Do you have HP toolkit installed? Are you sure you are using the right printer driver for your printer? Unless you have an older, slower machine, it would seem to me that something must be wrong with your configuration. Ink jet printers tend to be slow by design, but, in your case, it seems like something is seriously wrong somewhere.

[geraldw321]

hi there intel I7 q3610@2.3Ghz cpu 32gig ram no hp toolkit that im aware of , im using whatever drivers my mageia 3 system installed when i first plugged in my printer , and yes id say something is wrong thats why i posted . thank you

[ghmitch]

You should make SURE you have the HP ToolKit installed. The package is: hplip-3.12.9-6.mga3. Installing that, if it is not installed, just might ease your pain. - George

[geraldw321]

hello there and thanks but i cant find this package i looked in control center - install and remove software and i checked hardware - printer setup i dont see this anywhere can i get more info please

[ghmitch]

In the MCC software installer MAKE SURE you have the drop down selector in the top left corner set to "All" and not to "Packages with GUI". There are six hplip packages available, I recommend installing all of them. - George

[geraldw321]

ok thank you i didnt have that ALL selected i changed that and found the packages for HP and installed them ,ill try to print the stuff that took so long and let you know if it made a difference , many thanks for the help gerladw321

[ghmitch]

You may also need to go to the "Hardware" section of MCC and then to the Printer configuration section and change the driver for your printer from the generic driver to an HP provided driver, since I think that HP Tools installs printer optimized HP drivers. So if things don't get better, you may want to explore that angle as well. Also you will want to go to Menu -> Tools -> System Tools -> HP Device Manager and explore that feature as well. - George