Macbook takes long to go to sleep

Hello,
My macbook used to take about 5 seconds or less to go to sleep when I would manually put it to sleep. It now takes about a minute for it to go to sleep. I read on a forum that you may have a job stuck in the printer que. This is not my problem. I've tried to start in safe mode and it's still not fixed. I've also checked the permissions and repaired those. Is there anything else I can do to try and solve this problem? Im currently using version 10.7.4. Thanks

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