Steve,

>Jim,
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>This sounds like a problem Doug Dodge was having a few months ago. He marked thread #549636 message #550173 as the solution, but he did not actually say if he got it implemented and working.
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>Perhaps he is lurking around and will see this thread...

<g>

Yes.. I'm lurking.. <g>

As I mentioned in the private message what we found was that (in our case anyway) we switched the printer driver back to the HP4 levels. The reason was that the 4 drivers as opposed to the later drivers created PCL files whereas the later drivers created Postscript files. In our case, where we were printing maps, the difference was going from 35-50MB postscript files to ~50K files! It was stunning to see the size differences and it was the huge file size the newer drivers created that slowed things down for us.

Perhaps Jim has the same problem..

Again, as I mentioned in the other message, we came up with the solution of having two printers (actually printer drivers) available and dynamically switching between them depending on what reports we want to print our. The regular stuff goes with the newer drivers, the maps with the older.

HTH...



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>>I created an application that prints thousands of reports per day and for some reason they print extremely slow.. that is... i will have hundreds if not thousands of spool files and yet the printer will only print 6 or seven pages then it pauses 2 to 3 minutes then print another 6 or 7 pages...
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>>the reason i have so many reports is because each report packet gets 3 distinctly different reports, so i have to run them once each for each "customer"
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>>i removed all the lines and bitmaps from the reports so that all that is left is the data but it still prints dog slow...
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>>i have vfp 6.0 and have updated to service pack 5 running on win98, any thoughts?
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>>thanks!
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>>Jim Garner