iMac & Printer?

[Chris77]

Hi,

This is my first post on this forum and if you could help me I would be very thankful.

A couple of months ago I decided it was time to get a new computer and I thought I would get myself an iMac. Initially I used it with my Lexmark printer and it worked perfectly using wireless. Then all of a sudden it stopped working (nothing wrong with the printer it works fine from other computers) the iMac just would not talk to it. Over the weekend I bought a new printer, a Hewlett Packard C4780, now this printer works but when you press print it takes nearly 4 minutes for the printer to print (yet again there is nothing wrong with the printer it works fine with other computers, dare I say it, PC's).
It makes no difference whether the iMac is connected to the printer via USB or wirelessly.

I have phoned Apple customer service but the blamed the printer and said they could not help .

The operating system I am using is MAC OS X 10.6.3

 

[MYmacROX]

Have you tried going to HP's website and seeing if there are any driver updates you could download? Also, have you updated your OS X software using the most recent combo update? HERE
I don't pretend to know WHY you are having such a long delay from the time you click "Print" to the time the printer actually prints, but those are some basic things I would start with. HTH

 

[Chris77]

Thanks but I've tried both those updates and they have made no difference.