Long lag before pinter prints

[John Wallace]

I have a Mac mini M4 pro running the latest update of Tahoe. I have two printers connected by USB, a venerable old Brother HL 2130 laser, still going strong, and a brand new Canon G600, with which I am very pleased. I've had a lot of trouble with network connection on Tahoe, so am using USB. The problem I have is that both printers will work but it takes over three minutes for them to do so. When I use Screen Share and work from my wife's old Mac mini running Sequoia, they both work instantly.

What is causing the three minute delay on my M4 Mac mini?

 

[thebestcpu]

I have a Mac mini M4 pro running the latest update of Tahoe. I have two printers connected by USB, a venerable old Brother HL 2130 laser, still going strong, and a brand new Canon G600, with which I am very pleased. I've had a lot of trouble with network connection on Tahoe, so am using USB. The problem I have is that both printers will work but it takes over three minutes for them to do so. When I use Screen Share and work from my wife's old Mac mini running Sequoia, they both work instantly.

What is causing the three minute delay on my M4 Mac mini?

Hi @John Wallace
One difference in that setup is that each of your computers uses its own local print driver. I would check in System Settings: System Settings → Printers & Scanners, select the printer, and see what it says for Kind or Use. I bet hers is different than yours. I think that would be a good starting point.

You could also reinstall your print driver. I don't know what you are printing yet, but for generic printing, you could use Apple AirPrint, which often works well. If you need the special features in a printer (e.g. photo printing) I would not recommend Air Print.

Lastly, are you printing the same file on both. I have had problems in the past printing PDFs and that got fixed when I used the option to Print As Image which forces a rasterization before sending down the printer data path.

Just some quick thoughts/options

John Wheeler