I've been doing a lot of work with reports lately and every time i open the database, the first time i want to open a report there is a highly annoying popup.

"Waiting for printer connection"
Please wait for printer or cancel connection".

I'm left waiting 30 seconds or so before I can do anything.

If i click the cancel button then I get "There was a problem retrieving printer information for this object. The object may have been sent to a printer that is unavailable".

All reports are set to open in "Print Preview" so nothing is actually being sent to the printer at that point.

The printer is a network printer, and is very seldom actually on.

It doesn't matter if I'm on the desktop with wired connection to the network, or on the laptop using Wi-Fi.

Other applications like Word and Excel have a <=10 pause with no messages popping up, so I've been tolerating the delay. But >=30 seconds for Access is frustrating.

Anybody any ideas on how to speed this up? or better still stop it?