Printer slow

SuSE 10 and HP 1200 Laserjet Printer. It takes up to two minutes for a simple list of names on a single sheet to be sent to and printed by the printer. It doesn't make any difference whether the application sending the job is OpenOffice, gedit or kwrite. I suspect it is the printer driver. What needs fixing so that I can make this work faster? -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA