>Hi all, I set my printer font to "courier new" with the font size 11 for my program. As I see, it prints just fine but users complaint that it prints too slowly. Is there any way I can make the printer print faster? I mean like changing the font type or something? Thanks in advance.
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This subject has been beaten to death in the past few weeks. The simple answer is that you have options to increase the speed of the output, but must give up hardware independence and/or Windows-based printing tools.

What has happened is that you've selected a font that is not a native font for your printer. As a result, Windows sends the output graphically to the printer, which is considerably slower than sending an ASCII stream and using a native font.

If you use a native font on your printer, your output will be much faster. if you try to print to another printer that does not have that native font, then two things will happen - it'll be sent a Windows-interpreted font as graphics, and Windows will be forced to guess at an equivalent, so that the printed output is not likely to be what you want.

It's pointless to rehash this discussion in detail there are several threads that I've been involved with in the past two to three weeks that cover this in detail. take a look at message #289468, #288397, #283526, #288158, and #289035 for a few places.