Long delay between pages printing on Canon MP830

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I have a Canon MP830 all-in-one unit. When connected to a Windows 2000 PC or when connected to a MacOS X 10.4 machine, it worked fine. Under 10.5 Leopard and now 10.6 Snow Leopard, there is a long delay between pages when printing even simple text documents. The delay can be anywhere from 20 seconds to more than a minute. Scanning works just fine, the problem is only with printing.

Unit is connected via USB, and I've tried it in different ports just in case of a bad port. I have tried both Canon's own printer drivers and the Apple drivers from 10.6 Snow Leopard.

I have a 2006 Mac Pro 4x2.66 GHz with 5GB of RAM. It's the same machine which ran 10.4 Tiger without this issue, and I'm currently on 10.6.2.

 

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Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

I take it no one else has encountered this problem?

 

[ibolele]

Delay explained!?

I too had such a delay with my Pixma 4850.
Every time I would print multiple pages at once,
a delay of ~20+ seconds would occur between successive pages.
Even when I would issue successive prints (single or multiple pages)
before that time would pass, there would be this time penalty.
Now I came across this page, but saw there was no solution.
With trial and error, I came to this solution (my PC is running Windows):

I followed Page Setup -> Print Options -> Unit of Print Data Processing
and set it to Recommended. That was it!
Somehow I had left it to the Maximum setting, and this was causing all the delays.

I hope this helps anyone searching for this Canon printers problem.