HP Deskjet F4180 Taking Forever To Print

HP Deskjet F4180 Taking Forever To Print

Takes 30-60sec to cue, prints one pass/swath every 10-20 seconds.

A picture or text job that should take no more than 45sec takes 45 minutes!

The universal cry I hear in response to this problem is "bad print cartridge". Remove black cartridge and print again. If printing still slow, reinstall black and remove color. If printing speeds up after removal of either, you've found your culprit.



This does not work in my case. What else should I check. Problem has been only recently - last 3weeks to a month.

PC is HP Pavilion with 3GB RAM, Vista SP2. Has printed very quickly until last 3 weeks. Cartridges replaced and aligned around that time. No error codes from the physical printer or the installed printer.

 

Open Task Manager.

Maybe your CPU is pegged for some reason, and
the poor print task is getting no CPU to use.
It can only process and buffer up "a swath
at a time".

Try disabling your AV program (use the "temporary
disable" setting), and retest the print speed.
In case the AV is fighting with the printing
software.

And if the CPU is pegged, even without any printing
taking place, you have other problems.

HTH,
Paul

 

CPU wavers between 5-20 percent during printing and multitasking.


And I did more closely check those cartridges! Turns out removal of the color speeds up printing dramatically, useful for B&W only documents.


I bought the cartridges at Staples over one month ago, and no longer have the receipt. Am I up the creek for a replacement #57?

 

Unless it had a Staples tag on it, I would not
expect them to take it back.

And even if all paper work was in good order, what
would prevent you from returning an empty cart for
your money back ? Does the packaging use serial numbers
to identify the stuff ?

I suppose they could check the "chip" inside the
cartridge, to see how many print cycles it had
gone through. Staples won't know how to do that.

You'll have to talk to Staples or HP, and see what they
can do for you.

Paul