My P2055dn takes too long to print.

[Savid37]

My P2055dn printer is now taking a very long time to print simple documents.  It took more than 5 minutes to print a simple text document from my MacPro 5,1 with just 2 words on it.  The software is Apple's Pages The printer driver window says "Printing - Connecting to printer."  This is a significant increase in print time.  My computer and printer are connected to an AT&T WiFi router with ethernet cables.  My wife has the same problem printing from her MacBookPro using the WiFi.  We also tried connecting the MBP with a USB cable.

[Copier-Pro]

Hi I would like to assist to the best of my ability to solve your problem.I hope the information i supply will be of help.Just for information some technical information is protected by HP and is not allowed to be answered.This is unfortunate and you will have to contact a HP repair shop for the help in this case.I don't know mac os but i would maybe try to  uninstall the driver from scratch and then retry the print.Maybe the driver became defective.

[Copier-Pro · Accepted solution]

Hi I would like to assist to the best of my ability to solve your problem.I hope the information i supply will be of help.Just for information some technical information is protected by HP and is not allowed to be answered.This is unfortunate and you will have to contact a HP repair shop for the help in this case.I don't know mac os but i would maybe try to  uninstall the driver from scratch and then retry the print.Maybe the driver became defective.

[Savid37]

Thanks for the suggestion.  I believe that I tried that before.  Once again today I executed a print command for a simple text document and when the window opened that allowed me to choose a printer (I also have a Canon ink jet printer), clicking on the field "Printer" I had options to choose on of my two printers or "Add Printer..." or "Printers & Scanners Preferences...".  I selected the "Printers & Scanners Preferences..." and a "Printers & Scanners" window popped up listing the two printers.  I selected the HP LaserJet P2055dn and deleted it by pressing the "Delete" key.  I then pressed the "+" button and an "Add" window opened with "HP LaserJet P2055dn (883BC8   Bonjour" as an option.  I clicked on it and the printer showed up in the "Printers & Scanners" window again.  I then attempted to print a simple text document.  This time the printer completely failed to print.  The print driver reports "Printing - The printer is offline."   Now the problem is even worse.  Did I not do it correctly?  

[Savid37]

I don't know why it didn't work last time I did the reset.  This time it did work.  Thanks for the help.

[Euglenaguy]

The queue has sat for 10 minutes so far. what gives?! Happened the other day. Shut off the computer and the printer. The next day I turned both on called up the document and tried again. Much later the document printed. I reinstalled the Universal driver and it worked great...... Yesterday. Now I am waiting for another document.