RE: Word printing problem

["Peter Ring" <prc -at- prc -dot- dk>]

Rob's problem is solved for now, and we have learned not to use lots of dotted lines 
in Word tables. But the original problems still remains.

When a page is being created in the printer it is converted by the build-in CPU in the 
printer from the format received from the computer (e.g., PCL or PS)  to the final 
single dots on the paper.

This conversion needs printer RAM, which is often too small for printer price reasons. 
With the 86 MB file it can only take in the file in small portions in order to build the 
final page image, and that increases the time the printout takes because of 
interpolations in the border areas.

I have previously experienced significantly faster printouts and less printing errors by 
applying more RAM to my printers. Consequently more printer RAM could have 
solved the problem permanently. But of course you cannot ask a customer to adapt 
that solution?

Greetings from Denmark
Peter Ring, PRC
E-mail: prc -at- prc -dot- dk
The user-friendly manuals website: http://www.prc.dk/user-friendly-manuals
AcosHelp (context sensitive online help with PDF-files): http://www.acoshelp.com

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"Rob Partridge" wrote:

> John and Dick suggested converting to PDF or updating print drivers/RAM.
>
> Printing was slow on several separate systems, so I'm not sure it's a driver issue, 
> but obviously it could be several separate driver issues. I checked the print as it
> spooled, and the problem is clear in the size of the spooled doc. With gridlines it is 
> 86Mb, without it is 1.37Mb. No wonder it is taking so long to print.
> ...
> And the winner is... Changing the gridlines from dotted to solid light
> grey reduced the spool size of the doc from 86Mb down to around 6Mb.



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