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February 24, 2020
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Slow Prinitng

  • February 24, 2020
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Printing is incredible slow this year (2019) with System 10. Anyone else having problems?

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Just-Lisa-Now-
Intuit Community Champion
February 24, 2020

I tried hooking up a new printer, very similar to my old one, just supposed to be faster...but it had a long delay before printing and had long pauses during printing, so I went back to my old one. 

I havent taken the time to dissect which printer settings need to be changed on the new one to make it behave like the old one.

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Intuit Community Champion
February 24, 2020

I have one printer hooked up with USB, and one printer wireless. the wireless is all most instant starting, the USB has a delay (only 30 seconds or so), but once it starts its normal speed 

Intuit Community Champion
February 24, 2020

@pattyg2 wrote:

Printing is incredible slow this year (2019) with System 10. Anyone else having problems?


are you printing from within proseries?

Intuit Community Champion
February 25, 2020

Last year we had horrible printing issues with ProSeries. My solution was to print all letters invoices vouchers and returns to PDF and then print the PDFs. It was not only significantly faster but it enabled me to easily store copies of the tax returns in client files, move them into Intuit link, and manipulateThe files more efficiently. Try it.

If at first you don’t succeed…..find a workaround
Just-Lisa-Now-
Intuit Community Champion
February 25, 2020

I still have to reboot my computer after every PS update, or I cant print from the program at all....started in 2018, same this year.

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BobKamman
Level 15
February 25, 2020

Are you using the same printer as last year?

I bought a new Xerox with lots of bells and whistles last month.  Took me three hours to set it up.  It doesn't print tax forms as well as my old, bottom-of-the-line Brother.  The copies come out several shades of gray, lighter.  Documents from word processing and other programs print just fine, though.  As someone else said, I'll figure it out after April 15.

Intuit Community Champion
February 25, 2020

Saw something about the lightness of printing a few weeks ago, saying the lightness is due to IRS rules that does not allow dark print. Sorry don't remember source.

BobKamman
Level 15
February 25, 2020

IRS must have rules for newer, more expensive printers that don't apply to older, cheap printers.  Also, the 1041 forms seem to print darker on the new machine.