Printing an email from eBay takes forever

[Peter Kinross]

Using Outlook 2010.
When I try to print a confirmation or despatch email from eBay, 95% of the time it takes about 30 seconds for the email to appear in the print dialog, another 30 seconds after selecting the pdf printer to bring up the save dialog and another 30 seconds to start the print (to pdf). This happens regardless of the printer selected.
All other emails the dialogs come up almost immediately.
Would anyone have an idea why or ny way of overcoming this?

[Argus]

A long shot: Any images in the emails from eBay?
(Of course there are.)

(Not using Outlook here, but I've disabled linked pictures in HTML mail.)

[Peter Kinross]

But I still want pics from other emailers.

[Argus]

I understand; just thought it was something worth trying.

Perhaps some other loungers have good ideas.

[DaveA]

Is the ebay email in in a POP or imap type of collection within Outlook?

If imap, it may be being downloading from the server.

Also why are you making a pdf at this time, to be printed?

[Peter Kinross]

Whoops, sorry Dave, I completely missed your reply.
The connection is IMAP.
I record every page, including confirming emails, as PDFs while doing an eBay purchase.
I store the PDF as a record in case eBay or the seller messes things up. Saved my bacon heaps of times.

[DaveA]

How or what program are you using to make this PDF?

[Peter Kinross]

The delay occurs before selecting the PDF printer. So I can't see how the PDF printer is causing the delay, but it might, not my area of expertise.
3 delays, about 30 seconds each. Really frustrating - 90 seconds for a 5 second job.

• Waiting for printer dialog to show the mini version of the doc
  Waiting for it to redraw after selecting the PDF printer (usually Foxit, but Acrobat performs the same)
  Waiting for it to print after clicking on the 'Print' button.

I now have a 'Printers' icon on my Taskbar (thanks to you lounge guys & guyesses 2 days ago). So I can avoid the first delay by selecting the Foxit PDF printer as my default printer before starting. Then select my usual Brother printer again after I finish. But all that selecting eats up most of the saved time.

[JoeP]

This seems to be a not uncommon problem with Outlook 2010. I've seen a few suggestions that worked for some. One - open the email in a browser and print from there. Two- remove/close an archive email folder from Outlook and restart Outlook. Three - create a new email profile, setup your account, and try again. Four - delete your OutlPrnt file (see Outlook crash when printing).