Posted by Nd_WA on 12/5/05 11:46pm
Msg #80501

Slow printing remedies

If docs are printing slow with the assumption that they were scanned in as images.

1. Print 10-20 pages at a time, this would take the load off your comp/printer from allocating all the resources (memory) to spool the entire print job along with other applications running in the background of your windows.

2. Most common problem with slow printing is having a computer not properly set up for multi-tasking where you are trying to do other task while the comp. is processing a big print job.

By mean of multi-tasking capability, I run a P4-3.4Ghz with 2GB(4x512)of DDR2-533 memory in dual channel mode. Dual channel memory has the ability to allocate the resource to where it's needed most. I can still remember when 64MB of ram is plentiful memory to run a computer.