Slow reactions when printing

Can anyone help me?
All of a sudden my printer takes up to a minute to start printing then stops hafl way through and sits for a minute or two then finishes with good print.
Dbacklund

Hi,
What is your printer and how do you connect it. Please note: for wireless printer using wifi router, you only get fast results when the router is not busy. Sending a print job when downloading file(s) will slow it down.
Regards.
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I have an Iphone 4 with IOS 6 and my emails have disappeared. I also have a very slow reaction time to my touch screen.

I have an Iphone 4 with IOS 6 and my emails have disappeared. I also have a very slow reaction time to my touch screen. Help!

Hello there, parihargs1.
To troubleshoot display brightness issues the following article provides 2 key steps:
iPhone: Hardware troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2802
Of note is the following:
Display has no backlight or dark screen
Toggle the ringer switch to see if the unit vibrates. If it does, it could be that iPhone is getting power, but is not displaying any image.
Try turning iPhone off and then on again.
While connected to the iPhone charger, try to reset the iPhone.
If the low-battery screen appears, charge the iPhone.
Display does not adjust brightness automatically
The ambient light sensor brightens the display when using the iPhone in brightly lit environments, and dims the display in low light. To test this sensor, do the following:
If the iPhone is in a protective case, remove it from the case. If there is a protective film on the display, remove the film.
Verify that the Auto-Brightness setting (Settings > Brightness and Wallpaper) is set to ON, and that the Brightness level is set near the middle of the slider.
Press the Home button to return to the Home screen and then press the Sleep/Wake button to lock the iPhone.
In a bright environment, cover the top third of the iPhone to block the light, then press the Sleep/Wake button or the Home button to wake the phone. Slide the slider to unlock the phone.
Notice the brightness of the screen and application icons; they should be somewhat dimmed.
Remove the cover from the top of the display and in a few moments the display should get brighter.
If these steps do not resolve your issue please refer to the "Issue not resolved" section for your next step.
Thansk for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro D.

CR 2008 SP2 - Slow to open Print Dialog or Page Setup Dialog (And SP3+)

When I am designing my report in CR 2008 SP2 and select either Page Setup or Print from the File menu, Crystal Reports stops responding for about 5 minutes and then the dialog box will open. I created a blank report and did not add anything to it and this continues to happen. The program operates at normal speed otherwise. It is quick to startup and load reports. Any ideas on why this is so slow?
Update: I have also tried checking the box in page setup that says No Printer but the problem persists.
Update 2: I have updated from SP2 -> SP3 -> FP 3.1 -> FP 3.2 -> FP 3.3, and after each upgrade I tried both Print and Page Setup and it continued to exhibit the same slowness as in SP2.
Thanks,
Paul

Hi Ashwini,
I just completed updating my OS and I am still experiencing the behavior. I have applied every update available through Windows Update. I just reformatted my computer two days ago so this is a pretty fresh install.
This problem existed before my reformat as well however. A few months ago, Crystal did not have this slow issue when opening either Print or Page Setup dialogs. About a month ago these two dialog boxes just became very slow. I hoped reformatting would get rid of this issue but it persists. I also experience this slowness on a different computer that I am using.
One idea I just tried is to shutdown the Print Spooler service in Windows. The print dialog won't open at all but it does quickly tell me Warning: No Printer is installed on this system. The Page Setup dialog on the other hand opens immediately, however, the Printer Options group box is totally greyed out. This "fix" is of course no good to me since I cannot print, but perhaps it narrows down the issue to something regarding printing and/or printers?

Characters missing when printing a PDF

Hi all,
When printing a PDF file (word document converted and digitally signed with Adobe Pro XI) some characters are not printed, they are as blank spaces. The workaround is to print the file as image, with a significant decrease of printing quality. Is there any setting or option to change to avoid this?

If as in the past, this is an issue with an HP print driver. Printing as image is generally the solution, but a lot slower I think.

Mail crashing when printing

This was sporadic but is becoming more consistent mostly when printing but not always. Seem to be some other Mail issues such as very slow syncing with Gmail, not sure if related. Running Mavericks 10.9.2 on 3.06 Ghz iMac w/ 4 GB ram.
Here are some log messages in the hope someone can help! THANKS!
CONSOLE MESSAGE FROM AROUND TIME OF CRASH:
5/1/14 10:12:33.656 AM com.apple.internetaccounts[8916]: An instance 0x7fa7a3ee2a80 of class IMAPMailbox was deallocated while key value observers were still registered with it. Observation info was leaked, and may even become mistakenly attached to some other object. Set a breakpoint on NSKVODeallocateBreak to stop here in the debugger. Here's the current observation info:
<NSKeyValueObservationInfo 0x7fa7a3ee2c10> (
<NSKeyValueObservance 0x7fa7a3ee2b30: Observer: 0x7fa7a3ee19c0, Key path: uidNext, Options: <New: NO, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x11b6e543b, Property: 0x7fa7a3f53630>
5/1/14 10:23:25.177 AM Mail[8211]: Incorrect NSStringEncoding value 0x0000 detected. Assuming NSASCIIStringEncoding. Will stop this compatiblity mapping behavior in the near future.
5/1/14 10:39:59.809 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[327]: (com.apple.mail.4080[8211]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11
USER DIAGNOSTIC REPORT FROM TIME OF CRASH:
Process:         Mail [8211]
Path: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier: com.apple.mail
Build Info: Mail-1874000000000000~1
Responsible:     Mail [8211]
    __TEXT 000000010ec35000-000000010ef27000 [ 3016K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
1 com.apple.mail                 0x000000010ee422ef 0x10ec35000 + 2151151
3 com.apple.Mail.framework          0x000000010fcf18b1 +[MFLibrary _emlxPListInFile:plistOffset:] + 51
4 com.apple.Mail.framework          0x000000010fceb757 +[MFLibrary updateFileForMessage:] + 180
7 com.apple.Mail.framework          0x000000010fcce1a4 +[MFLibrary synchronouslyUpdateMessageFiles] + 503
10 com.apple.MailCore                    0x0000000110005b44 -[MCMonitoredInvocation invoke] + 211
11 com.apple.MailCore                    0x00000001100287e8 -[MCThrowingInvocationOperation main] + 40
12 com.apple.MailCore                    0x000000010ffcced8 -[_MCInvocationOperation main] + 332
2 com.apple.Metadata                    0x00000001157c9041 mdsSetAttributesForMail + 228
3 com.apple.Metadata                    0x00000001157c8f00 _MDSetMailMessageAttributesAtTime + 3986
       0x10ec35000 -        0x10ef26fff com.apple.mail (7.2 - 1874) <9F450371-5F9B-3F84-A38F-BB4CAFC5AA23> /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
       0x10f8b9000 -        0x10f8beff7 com.apple.EmailAddressing (7.2 - 1874) <F889E9E5-A143-38F1-91E3-61CF2344A917> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/EmailAddressing.framework/Versions/A/EmailAdd ressing
       0x10fc39000 -        0x10fe4ffff com.apple.Mail.framework (7.2 - 1874) <1E9D6A31-FF20-3102-8EB9-3FCF1E13D3EC> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Mail.framework/Versions/A/Mail
       0x10ffa7000 -        0x110050ff7 com.apple.MailCore (7.2 - 1874) <68F605E3-F062-345C-B86F-1285B7A1F6AB> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MailCore.framework/Versions/A/MailCore
       0x1100db000 -        0x1100e4ff7 com.apple.MailService (7.2 - 1874) <87141582-08F3-36E8-B4A7-D377D1177178> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MailService.framework/Versions/A/MailService
       0x1100f3000 -        0x110131fff com.apple.MailUI (7.2 - 1874) <CDEBA548-F861-3D53-AC21-1EF046FE0160> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MailUI.framework/Versions/A/MailUI
       0x123009000 -        0x123241ff7 +com.dervishsoftware.mailhub (1.7B83 - 7083.0) <A68309D7-A53B-3385-B8C8-94906FE074BD> /Users/USER/Library/Mail/*/MailHub
       0x1267e0000 -        0x1267f1fff com.apple.mail.WebPlugIn (7.2 - 1874) <DBBE6C90-3591-35F0-822F-F74221FDDC01> /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/PlugIns/MailWebPlugIn.webplugin/Contents/MacOS/ MailWebPlugIn

Did you recently install a Mac OS Security Patch? There are posts on the VMware Fusion forum about losing the ability to print to network printers after the latest Mac OS patches. Those posts are more focused on not being able to print from the VM, but get the sense some are having trouble in Mac OS as well.

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