Even weirder it sometimes happens with some documents but not with some others - there dosen't seem to be any correlation with the type of documents it wants to print and dosen't want to print! Makes no sense! Every now and then after I restart everything and turn everything on and off it does actually print straight away as it should, but then it eventually reverts back to the stubborn issue described above. I thought it was just an issue with preview but I also have the issue with word and adobe acrobat so it must be a system wide issue where it sends the print job and it just cycles. It either takes a very long time to print or just cycles like this indefinitely and dosen't print whatever I want to print even though it says printing. When I print from preview, or word, or any other program in MacOS the print job sends to the printer, then the printer seems to whirl up and make some noise (maybe the document feeder?) and then stops - on my mac it just says printing and on the printers screen it just says printing.
Here is everything that I have noticed, and everything I have tried so far to try and fix it:
I have recently been having troubles getting it to print from my mac computer and I am pretty certain it is a driver issue or an issue with something on my mac but I have no idea how to fix it and it is really frustrating. I recently bought a new HP laser printer: the M281fdw laserjet pro printer.