I want to reset new mac to factory default

I am having major printing problems, regardless of the printer when I try to print a single page it prints non stop.
Not sure if there is a corrupt file somewhere, I deleted all printer drivers and downloaded new ones and the issue persists

Sure if you don't have any data on the drive that you want to keep or if you have a Time Machine backup of it what you want to do is fairly simple.
2 ways.
1) Use the built in Recovery HD partition, hold down Command+r at startup, and erase the Macintosh HD partition with Disk Utility then Reinstall Mac OS X.
2) Use the Online Internet Recovery system, hold down the Command+Option/Alt+r keys at startup until you see a Spinning globe in the center of the screen, and then Repartition the drive as One Partition usiing Disk Utility and then Reinstall Mac OS X.
Option 2 will download whatever version of OS X Originally came on that system and then if you have upgrade to a newer version you would need to do that again. So if your Mac came with Lion option 2 would reinstall Lion. If it came with Mt Lion it would install that.
Option 1 will reinstall the current version of OS X that was installed before you erased the drive.

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