Q: How to fix major printing issue? (El Capitan 10.11.6)
Hello. I recently upgraded OS X from 10.10.5 to 10.11.6.
I immediately noticed that printing multiple copies of a single page has changed from sending the single page once, letting the printer make the multiple copies as quickly as it can, to sending the same page over and over again, once per copy, slowing the printer down drastically from the speed of which it is capable. (I have tried printing both from Preview, MS Office for Mac, and from Adobe Acrobat, and the problem seems system-wide.)
Instead of taking about 4 minutes or less to print 80 copies of the same page, with my HP LaserJet printing around 20 copies per minute, this task now takes 80 minutes (yes, you read that right), because the new OS X seems to send each page "job" separately, and also seems to send each page "job" more slowly than its predecessor did. Sending the same page over and over and over and over, is taking about 1 minute per page to print!
Each and every week I must print a batch of 80 copies per single page, and I need it to take 4 minutes or less each time, not 80 minutes!
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a document. In my case, I opened a multipage document (a 2-page Word Doc, and also tried with PDF).
2. Click File > Print.
3. Select to print either "from 1 to 1" or "from 2 to 2" or the "Selected Page" so that only 1 page is to print.
4. Set the desired number of copies (something higher than 1).
Does anyone have advice for how I can get this fixed? Any and all help would be much appreciated.
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), 17" Late 2011, with 16 GB RAM
Posted on Sep 22, 2016 10:15 AM