Waiting for printer to respond officejet pro 8600

I am suddenly getting a message when I try to print from any Microsoft Office 2010 program to my Officejet Pro 8600. It says, "Waiting for pinter to respond". It only flashes on the PC screen for a few seconds, but then it takes a long time for the printer to come to life and get started printing the document.
In addition, I had one Word document that was taking forever to print. Both issues started a few days ago. The document is mostly a drawing, with a bit of text. It used to print just fine. I deleted the document, made a new scan of the drawing, added the text and saved it to a new folder in case there was a problem with the destination folder. Nothing happened. I tried doing the same thing making it a Publisher document. Same thing happened. Every other document prints fine (except for the wait time for it them begin) I uninstalled/reinstalled the printer and drivers, did a repair of the Office software. No change.
I downloaded and ran the HP Print & Scan Doctor. It found no problems.

Hey @sldmsh,
Thanks again for getting back to me. After some additional digging I did find this Microsoft Support document that seems to describe what you're experiencing:
The size of the EMF spool file may become very large when you print a document that contains lots of...
There is a suggested fix under the Resolution section of the document that you can try. By enabling the 'Print directly to the printer' feature you avoid spooling print jobs.
Should the issue still occur I would recommend that you reach out to Microsoft Support for additional guidance.
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