Long delay when accessing printer

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I'm running Office 2007 on XP with SP3.
I have a laptop.
My wife has a desktop with a printer connected via USB to it.
I've set up that printer (via Microsoft Printer sharing) so that I can use
it from my laptop. That all works fine. That printer is the default printer
on my laptop.

I run into a problem, though, when my wife's desktop goes into Standby or is
Shutdown. For example, if I am in Word and want to print something there will
be a long (like 20 second) delay while Word is 'accessing printer'.
I've also experienced delays like that in Access. But in this case the delay
occurs almost as soon as I start using the Report functions. For example, as
soon as I go into Report/Design there will be a long delay. If I wake up the
desktop there is no delay at all.
I also believe this may occur in some functions in Word like Page Layout.
Even though I'm not printing when I go to some of those functions I get that
long delay.

Well, that's the situation. I tried to describe it as well as I could.
Any ideas?
.

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