Hi Evan,

The HP 1100 is a GDI printer so the entire print job is rendered on the pc not the printer.

This is why at times printing to the HP1100 is incredibly slow especially in network printing configurations and on workstations with limited memory since the printed image has to be rendered on the workstation and can use huge amounts of memory. It also sometimes results in very large sized spool files so one option is to test different spool settings for the printer on the workstation. Typically, the full printed image must be rendered and spooled before any output will be directed to the printer.

Nothing that can be done to offload the work to the printer. The less memory and slower the local workstation's processor, the worse the performance of the print job will be.

Other applications running, network bandwidth, and memory usage will all play a part in the time it takes from start of rendering to the printed output on the device.

One other option is to verify that the generated output is not being stored termporarily on the hard drive before printing and also that it is not being scanned by any antivirus software which would slow the process down. Additionally, what are the settings for the printer? can they be optimized at all on the system. You may have to play around with that...


>Hi folks. I generate PDFs by printing VFP reports to an Acrobat 5 PDF driver. Users have complained that the PDF output from a particular report prints very slowly to a particular printer. They receive the PDF file from my web apps, then send it to their printer using "file print" on the Acrobat menu. It has gone from taking a few seconds, to taking a few minutes.
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>Some facts:
>- printing to this HP1100 is very slow, but to other printers (example HP970 is fast)
>- I haven't changed the report that the PDF is based on
>- the PDF file is only 2 pages
>- other PDF files generated from foxpro that are the same size and same font and same number of pages print quicklys
>- the speed of printing this particular file degraded in the last two weeks from seconds to minutes
>- PDF file is only 70K and in print queue, is about that same size
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>Any ideas how to fix?