Sick and tired of beachballing when printing and office
I'm Sick and Tired of beachballing while printing and Microsoft office.
I've been strugling with this for some time now. I switched to this mac PMG5 in august and installed Office Mac 2004 (student and teacher) the day I got the machine. Worked fine and all, I was real excited for the mac etc. I have been looking at these machines them for years.
After a month or two, printing in iphoto started to beachball or hang. It beachballed until you forced quit, but you open iphoto again to print and the same thing would happen. The only solution I have found is to restart the computer and print as soon as I login. This same problem happens with all apps when I go to print in them.
The last few months or so i've been trying to open excel documents to edit/update, but excel hangs and beachballs until you force quit, only solution like above is to reset and open as soon as I login.
This is real frustrating for just trying to print things or opening simple excel documents, and real frustrating when i praise the mac for being so much better than windows and then it beachballs and hangs.
Things I've tried:
MacJanitor
Disk Utility, Repair disk permissions
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
I've been strugling with this for some time now. I switched to this mac PMG5 in august and installed Office Mac 2004 (student and teacher) the day I got the machine. Worked fine and all, I was real excited for the mac etc. I have been looking at these machines them for years.
After a month or two, printing in iphoto started to beachball or hang. It beachballed until you forced quit, but you open iphoto again to print and the same thing would happen. The only solution I have found is to restart the computer and print as soon as I login. This same problem happens with all apps when I go to print in them.
The last few months or so i've been trying to open excel documents to edit/update, but excel hangs and beachballs until you force quit, only solution like above is to reset and open as soon as I login.
This is real frustrating for just trying to print things or opening simple excel documents, and real frustrating when i praise the mac for being so much better than windows and then it beachballs and hangs.
Things I've tried:
MacJanitor
Disk Utility, Repair disk permissions
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Comments
You might have some startup items or system extras that are conflicting with your printer. The problems with opening excel documents suggest that you may have a problem seperate from just the printer issue, though...
It sounds like the problem is due to third party extensions/drivers.
I have never herd of CUPS before, but if you give me some direction I could try that to,
Thanks for the quick response!
Download from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/
Depending on your printer model (left column), you'll have to selected the corresponding printer driver (right column):
HP PSC 370pcl-690HP DeskJet 690 series
HP PSC 380pcl-690HP DeskJet 690 series
HP PSC 500pcl-810HP DeskJet 810C
HP PSC 750pcl-900HP DeskJet 900 series
HP PSC 950pcl-900HP DeskJet 900 series
HP PSC 950xipcl-900HP DeskJet 900 series
HP PSC 2110pcl-900HP DeskJet 900 series
HP PSC 2150pcl-900HP DeskJet 900 series
HP PSC 2210pcl-900HP DeskJet 900 series
But as I said, based on your excel problems, I'd say you have some sort of software conflict. Downloading and usign gimp-print probably won't solve your Excel problems.
I second trying the CUPS printer drivers. I have an HP PSC-2110 and the drivers listed by Whyatt Thrash work very well.
So you could just try it out, and if it doesn't work, just uninstall it.
Good luck!