Outlook 2007 slow print window.

[Reinie]

Similar to the Outlook 2003 (?) question by "teri", dated "9/27/2005 11:15 AM
PST", I got a new XP computer with XP Home and Office 2007.

When printing an email from Outlook (by clicking the printer icon), it may
take a minute for the job to be queued. I can do no other work in Outlook
while waiting for for this.

It sits there,then a "Connecting to Printer" window pops up, and disappears,
then some time later (10 or 15 seconds) another "Connecting to Printer"
window pops up, and disappears, then, some time later (up to almost a minute)
another larger window displaying a printer pops up, and disappears, and the
job is queued, and I can again work in Outlook.

If I print another email, a second later, it may queue in seconds. A third
email, seconds later, may also queue in seconds, or it may be back to the
minute of waiting.

Printing in Excel and IE and other non-MS apps does not have this issue
(they print in seconds)... only Outlook is a problem.

The default printer is a network printer attached to a Win 98 PC. Before
this fancy XP machine, I had Win 98 and the print jobs queued in a second.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the printer to no avail.

What can I do to get my Outlook print jobs to queue in just a few seconds?

 

[carrie]

I also have the same problem. I'm running XP SP3 with Office 2007. Outlook
takes almost a minute to print to a network printer. Our network runs off a
Linux server, so perhaps that's the problem? When there's no Microsoft
Exchange server everything goes haywire?

We also noticed in Microsoft Access 2007 that changes could not be made when
the default network printer was not turned on.

Why is there an EXTREME connection with Office 2007 applications and the
default printer? How does a printer connection freeze all installed
workstation applications? Is there a setting I can change to alleviate my
pain??