Office 2003 constantly pauses "to wait for printer information"?

My default printer is an HP 1320 printer attached to another machine. Now
every simple cut-paste operation pauses for 20 seconds while Office is
waiting for printer information. How can I turn that off?

More information about this problem. I just tried to open a file with Word
2003 and the message is "The printer has not yet responded, but the Microsoft
Office program may be able to proceed without printer information. Do you
want to continue to wait for the printer?"


"John.Grasso@cmu.edu" wrote:

> My default printer is an HP 1320 printer attached to another machine. Now
> every simple cut-paste operation pauses for 20 seconds while Office is
> waiting for printer information. How can I turn that off?

[Choffpauir@gmail.com]

I had the same problem I am guessing that your computer has a mixture of printers from multiple locations. If one of these printers is on a network and it is selected as the default printer, then the computer might be trying to Query the network & failing. The solution I used to resolve my issue was to simply change the default to a printer that the computer "knew" was offline.
to do this you simple go to:
Control Panel->
Printers & faxes
Now, find a printer that says "offline" and Choose it as the default.
... I know this isn't the most eloquent solution, but it will work Until someone who knows more can help you. Good Luck