Resolved my 6-yr old HP All/One printer is verrrrry slow

I asked Staples tech about this problem and he said it could be my 6-yr-old HP Pavilion a1224n computer, the cable (I assume printer cable), or the HP Officejet 6210 All in One printer. I just put a new 94 black cartridge in it on 9/11/12, but have not changed the 95 tri-color cartridge yet. It's printing fine but it takes forever to print. I think it took about 2 hrs. to print an 8-column spreadsheet with about 45 rows.

About 2-3 mos. ago, I was having trouble with a wrong default printer. Don't know how it got changed (I'm the only one using this computer) from my HP to, I think, a Microsoft something. There was a second word, but I've forgotten what it was. I'm not even sure the first word was Microsoft. I should have written you two mos ago when it was happening, but I was able to finally change the default printer to show my HP All in One. Don't know if this has any bearing on my slow-to-print problem.

I'd be willing to go out and buy a new printer, but maybe this won't solve the problem. The printer is also slow when I try to copy something. Can you help me?

 

If it lets you. My HP will yell at me and refuse to print if any cartridges are missing, or not firmly inserted. It will print with empty cartridges but not missing ones.

You might try connecting the printer to another computer, install the drivers and see if printing is slow from there too. If not, you likely have a spooler or driver problem on your machine.

Have you scanned for malware?