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• • October 22, 2010 at 5:26 pm #57470
    hyland b.

    Member

    Once I hit print, I get the spinning beach ball for what seems like an inordinate amount of time.

    This isn't the actual rip (right?); it's the time between Command-P and the appearance of the Print dialog box. I *do* sometimes use “Print Presets,” but even then it's slow.

    This happens even when…

    • I'm not running any other apps
    • There are no images in a file
    • The doc is one page of text
    • I don't have any style sheets, object styles, or any other fancy formatting
    • I'm only printing to a B/W laser printer

    The app itself (and PShop, AI) all react fast enough when I'm *in* the app; it's the “print command” that's slow. Of course, it does print small files faster than big ones.

    Is this simply the price we pay for such a robust application? Or is my computer too slow? Or is there some secret setting somewhere that I don't know about?

    tks!

    CS4
    MBP running 10.6.4
    2.53 GHz processor
    4 gigs of ram

  • October 23, 2010 at 6:24 am #57476
    Bob Levine

    Participant

    Was Snow Leopard a clean install or an in place upgrade over an earlier operating system? If it was an in place upgrade I can only tell you that my experience with it was a disaster and the beachball when trying to print was one of the reasons why I gave up on it and erased the harddrive and did a clean install.

  • October 24, 2010 at 4:35 pm #57483
    Tom Pardy

    Member

    Gee, thanks Hyland B!

    I thought it was just a peculiarity of my particular machine but I, too, get a long wait between hitting the “Print” command and the appearance of the Print dialog box — at least the first time. Once the dialog box has appeared, even if I hit “Cancel” to dismiss it, it appears quickly enough next time to be called “normal”; unless I Quit InDesign. After relaunching InDesign, the slowness returns.

    And no, my installation of Snow Leopard was not an in-place upgrade but was a clean install following a hard disk erasure. Indeed, it was following the installation of a new 1TB hard disk and the painstaking reinstallation of all data (the opportunity for some stocktaking of just what to keep on storing on my internal HD).

    CS4, 24-inch iMac running 10.6.4, 2.4GHz processor and 2GB of RAM.

  • October 24, 2010 at 8:47 pm #57484
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I find File > Print to be very slow the first time I use it, but then it speeds up. My understanding is that it's just part of the “modern print architecture.” However, I wonder if you should use the Printer system prefs to delete and rebuild your printer.

  • October 28, 2010 at 3:35 pm #57523
    Tom Pardy

    Member

    Nope.

    Tried deleting and rebuilding the printer in System Prefs and it still takes anything up to 30 seconds (though usually less than that — more like 15-20 seconds) for the Print dialog box to appear after using the “Print” command (either from the Menu or keyboard). But that is only on the first call. Provided I don’t Quit InDesign, subsequent calls bring the Print dialog box up almost instantly.

    Why is it so slow the first time?

  • October 28, 2010 at 8:44 pm #57526
    hyland b.

    Member

    Ditto Furry: Clean snow.

    I'll just plan to make coffee or file my nails for the first “print” after start up.

  • January 23, 2011 at 1:36 pm #58463
    Bill Pitts

    Member

    Hello everyone,

    I'm on a Mac G4 that I bought new in 2001, running 10.4.11 (the highest OS it will handle), and I have the same problem with InDesign CS2. The print dialogue box is very slow to open first call but not for subsequent calls, unless I quit and restart InDesign.

    Surely there's an obvious fix for this? Anyone?

    Gorillamo

  • January 23, 2011 at 1:38 pm #58464
    Bill Pitts

    Member

    BTW, this has been happening to me from the start with my set up — and that means since summer 2001.

    Gorillamo

  • January 24, 2011 at 4:12 am #58474
    Rhiannon Miller

    Member

    Like Gorillamo, I've always found the Print command to take ages to show up, in all the versions of CS I've ever used (from 2 onwards), the first time I run it after starting the program. Subsequent calls in the same InDesign session are much quicker. It's a little irritating because I don't ever use Print, but sometimes call it by accident!

  • June 1, 2011 at 11:11 am #59737
    jmark

    Member

    Hi there –

    Glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem

    I think this guy has the answer. It worked for me. I removed alot of my ppd files for printers I dont have.

    https://www.coolestguyplanet.ne…..-document/

  • June 1, 2011 at 4:12 pm #59746
    mckayk777

    Member

    I have heard a lot of people mention the slowness of Command P first time use a fair bit and no one has an answer as yet.

    My solution is…

    Command P … Make coffee!

  • June 2, 2011 at 7:23 am #59753
    Bill Pitts

    Member

    I like mckayk777's suggestion, but as it turns out, jmark's is on the mark! I went to the link on his post, followed the directions (I even removed the other languages from Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/), and now my wait time is under 5 seconds! And this is for the first print call after starting InDesign!

    I am happy now. This worked for me. Now if my car repair today will be as easy!

    Thank you, jmark.

    Gorillamo

  • June 2, 2011 at 5:46 pm #59756
    mckayk777

    Member

    I too did the same and wow it does make a massive difference :(

    When will I get my coffee now???

  • April 12, 2014 at 1:27 pm #67945
    jmark

    Member

    Speeding up printing link now found here:

    Slow Print Dialog for the First Adobe Indesign Document

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