SLow printing with HP color laser

[kcalderw]

I have two color laser printers that are printing very slow. For instance if there is a 10 page document, it will print 2 pages then wait (30-60 sec), print another few, then wait again. It's maddening. I have seen this printing both from Mac and PC. I have the latest version of the drivers on the Mac server as well as the AD server.

[fairm010]

Which model?

[Grey-gear]

Does this happen if you connect a computer via USB?

 

Does this happen if you add the printer via it's IP address?

 

On the printer menu is it set to wait until the whole document has spoiled?

Or is it set to print as soon as one page is ready?

 

sorry if these are not much help.

[kcalderw]

The two printers are an M551 and an M451.

 

Edit: Happening now on our M401 as well.

 

The M551 and M401 are all printed to from Macs. I'm wondering if there is an issue with our Mac server.

 

Edit2: Just had a teacher print a 10 page doc from Pages in color and it shot out of the printer. Wondering if this is now related to PDFs specifically.

Edited November 17, 2014 by kcalderw

[kcalderw]

Anyone else have issues with printing PDFs?

[LiamH]

I think we once had an issue with Mac's printing PDF's, under the advanced print options there was a "print as image" option which fixed the issue for us if i recall correctly.