Strange behavior when word specific documents are being printed

Hello fellow Mac users!


I decided to introduce my issue here since I haven't been able to find a proper solution myself. I didn't notice it at first, because I mostly print documents that consist of just a single page. However, whenever I am trying to print anything that has more than one page, the process stops after the first and my printer starts blinking.


In order to finish it, the resume button must be pressed; not the end of the world, but utterly annoying when I am in different room than the one with a printer ;) The device has always been "hooked" via AirPrint, and never before I had experienced such behavior


Strangely, it seems to only affect documents like doc, docx etc. PDFs are handled without any hiccups whatsoever. At first, I thought it's Microsoft Office problem, because I'm using quite dated version, but after opening doc documents in Pages, identical behavior occurred


Why do i think this problem is related to Tahoe specifically? Well... after realization of the problem, I quickly booted up my older M2 with Sequoia, no issues - butter smooth printing...


I've already re-set my printer (HP SmartTank 510) with no luck sadly. Has anyone experienced a similar problem?

MacBook Air 15″

Posted on Nov 3, 2025 11:17 AM

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Posted on Nov 3, 2025 11:26 AM

Does your printer have a manual feed option? That's what happens with that option selected (though mine doesn't). Check in the print settings under Media & Quality, Feed From.



As a workaround, you can also select the PDF option at the bottom, Open in Preview and print from there.

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