Very S L O W printing with HP Laserjet 1200

[buster99]

I'm a Mac newbie - happily switched over from Windows. But my Laserjet printer is a total dog printing from my iMac. A simple text document takes 10-15 seconds to start printing. A typical web page takes about five minutes. This printer was very fast on my Windows machine, but now it's almost useless.

Please help - I really don't want to buy a new printer.

Just for the record, I'm using an iMac G5 with the default printer driver (the HP driver would not load properly). I've corrected permissions.

Many thanks

 

[Macman]

what model printer is it, is it os x compatible? are you printing over a network, and how much ram do you have?

 

[buster99]

what model printer is it, is it os x compatible? are you printing over a network, and how much ram do you have?

It's a Laserjet 1200 with factory-installed printer memory (I'm not sure how much that is). The driver seems to be OS X compatible, but I'm not sure how to check that. The strange thing to me is that it is super fast on a Windows PC - could Macs really be that much less efficient in their use of printers? Thanks for the help!

 

[Macman]

have you checked hp's site for os x drivers and try reinstalling them?

 

[buster99]

You seem to have nailed it. I dredged through the fine print about the printer driver and it says it only supports Mac OS 8.6 or 9.0. So am I screwed or are their any other possibilities?

I really appreciate the help!

 

[Macman]

You seem to have nailed it. I dredged through the fine print about the printer driver and it says it only supports Mac OS 8.6 or 9.0. So am I screwed or are their any other possibilities?

I really appreciate the help!

I recommend gimpprint, itll alolow unsupported printed printers to run natively in os x. its here. enjot

 

[buster99]

Hey - that helped a lot. Printing is still slow, but MUCH better with Gimp Print. Thank you so much for the recomendation! I really appreciate the help.

 

[Macman]

when you repaired permissions, did you use disk utility in the utilities folder, or did you boot from the panther install disc 1 and use disk utility there?

 

[buster99]

when you repaired permissions, did you use disk utility in the utilities folder, or did you boot from the panther install disc 1 and use disk utility there?

I'm just reading this now, but I repaired from disk utility. Is it better to do it the other way - I've not done that before?

 

[trpnmonkey41]

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...it.y=8&submit.x=10&lang=en&cc=au&swEnvOID=219

There is an OS X driver for the printer

 

[IanCT]

There is an OS X driver for the printer

Yes there certainly is. I use the same printer with my 17" iMac 1.25GHz and OS X 10.3, it prints almost immediately every time. I love that printer. Prints stacks of envelopes, individual CD labels as needed, everything lines up great. Standard RAM.

I do have a LaserJet 2100 as well, but it didn't have the PostScript DIMM and all it would bring was PS garbage until I found the DIMM on eBay and that took care of everything.