Posted by Dave_CA on 6/26/07 10:13am
Msg #196972

Printer performance

I recently upgraded from a HP 1320 DTN to a HP 4200DTN and I'm very pleased with the overall performance.
Yesterday I noticed that a set of loan docs was printing slowly so I checked my settings.
I always use pcl5e rather than pcl6 and I have Adobe 8 so I looked a bit more and discovered that I had not selected print as image.
I did a test with the docs and it took 7 min. 15 sec. the 1st time. Then I selected print as image and the same docs printed in 2 min. 50 sec.
I have not had time to test other docs but I thought this was worth passing along.

Does anyone know if print as image will speed up all docs or just some?

I realize this suggestion is not new but wanted to post the actual printing times.
Thanks to all who have provided printing help before. Particularly Paul & Andy.

Reply by Dave_CA on 6/26/07 10:14am
Msg #196973

I should have added that there were 88 pages of mixed letter & legal.

Reply by Dennis D Broadbooks on 6/26/07 10:26am
Msg #196976

On Friday of Last Week...

...I had the same slow printing issue & like you the remedy was to check "print as image". I could have sworn that box was previously selected because I wasn't having any issues prior to then, but it wasn't. As far as your question is concerned, I believe the "print to image" selection is unique to Adobe. Looking at the print options in a MS Word document doesn't show "print as image" as a possibility. No expert here...perhaps one of our other NotRot computer gurus has the definitive answer.

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Reply by Frenchie/TN on 6/26/07 12:39pm
Msg #196999

Re: On Friday of Last Week...

I am not a computer guru by any means, but yes, the print as image is because it's a PDF file. PDF's are usually read only documents and thus are really "images".