Spinning beach ball when I print

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Spinning beach ball when I print

Hi there!
I have this big issue. It's on my dad's old e-mac G4 running tiger. In any application whenever I print, I get a spinning beach-ball of death and the application locks up. Weather it be text edit, word or even safari. Though when I print from my Mbp Wirelessly, well it works... so I'm finding this a little strange. The printer is plugged into the eMac

Any help?
Thanks in advance,
Chuck

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.11), 2.4 Ghz Core2 duo, 2 gigs RAM

Posted on Aug 2, 2009 1:06 PM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

Level 10

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Aug 2, 2009 1:26 PM in response to Chuck Smith 2

Hi Chuck,

At this point I think you should get Applejack...

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596

After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...

applejack AUTO

Then let it do all 5 of it's things.

At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.

The 5 things it does are...

Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.

If that doesn't do it, Might try these two...

Mac OS X: About the Reset Printing System feature ...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1341?viewlocale=en_US

Might try Printer Setup Repair 5.1...

http://www.fixamac.net/software/index.html

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