More memory and PDFs still print slow

Just went from 4 megs to 68 megs of memory in our HP4v
and PDF files still print very slow.

Using a network system printer, the files fly through the print
cue, then the printer sits there and sits there and sits..... I got
tired of waiting for this print. About 1.3 meg in the cue.

I have tried these settings in the properties of the printer, neither
of which seem to make any difference.

"Spool print documents so program finishes printing faster
(start printing immediately)"

"Print directly to printer"

Any suggestions for a speedier print?

 

Thanks for the suggestion, but this isn't bogging down
any machines. You can take a nap waiting for the
print to process. Printing the pdfs from Adobe is what
I am doing now, not from any Autodesk prodcut.

 

Maybe Jet Direct Card?
Check the port on the switch for trans errors?
Maybe it's just Friday Afternoon?

 

Should have mentioned before, no Jet Direct.

Server > LPT1 > Shared Printer

 

That pretty much leaves Friday Afternoon as the culprit.
Sorry but I guess I'm not going to be much help on this one.

 

Somehow I think the problem will still be here
on Monday morning, but thanks for trying!

 

Yes, printing (11x17) sheets of cad drawings. I realize
that the 4v isn't exactly the fastest printer, but that is what
I have to deal with (we've had ours since 1997, I think).

Haven't tried DWF files

Reader version of Adobe.

Haven't checked any Adobe discussion areas, my thought
was this was more cad related since it seems to be slow
with the printing of drawings.

 

Try using the Advanced Button at the bottom of the Adobe 6.0 Print dialog
and then check the Print As Image and see if that helps. Rasterizing a PDF
can be a very memory intensive process for large format drawings and it can
easily spool into a 100 MB or larger image file that has to be sent to the
printer.

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Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
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518 South Route 31 Suite 200
McHenry, IL 60050
www.cadzation.com
Providing Industrial Strength
PDF & DWF Solutions to the
Global CAD Marketplace.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, Rodney but that box is
greyed out (as is everything on the advanced button)
so I can't check it.

 

Try setting another printer and then resetting the one that you want.
That's a wonderful Adobe bug in 6.0 that they introduced. Sometimes it will
allow you to change it and other times not for the same printer/plotter on
the same machine. Go figure.

--
Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
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518 South Route 31 Suite 200
McHenry, IL 60050
www.cadzation.com
Providing Industrial Strength
PDF & DWF Solutions to the
Global CAD Marketplace.

 

.....er do NOT have this ....

 

On those try checking or unchecking the ckeckbox and see if it helps.
Sometimes the printer doesn't support sending it as a complete image which
may be the case of the CutePDF but other times it's a bug in Adobe that
disables it.

--
Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
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518 South Route 31 Suite 200
McHenry, IL 60050
www.cadzation.com
Providing Industrial Strength
PDF & DWF Solutions to the
Global CAD Marketplace.

 

Of the 3 printers I have installed none of them have
the "print as image" button available to check or
uncheck no matter how many times I switch printers.
Not sure that was exactly clear in my last post.

I guess this means we simply can't print drawing files
in a .pdf format to our printer.

 

Which version of Adobe Reader are you using?

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Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
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518 South Route 31 Suite 200
McHenry, IL 60050
www.cadzation.com
Providing Industrial Strength
PDF & DWF Solutions to the
Global CAD Marketplace.

 

Version 6.0

 

Why don't you forward me over one of your PDF files and I'll look at a
couple things with it once. This is just an 11x17 Laserjet you are sending
this to if I remember my models correctly isn't it?


--
Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
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518 South Route 31 Suite 200
McHenry, IL 60050
www.cadzation.com
Providing Industrial Strength
PDF & DWF Solutions to the
Global CAD Marketplace.

 

I'll send one to ya that flies through the print cue
but then the printer sits on it for too long and I
just end up canceling the thing.

Yes, the 4v is an 11x17 device.

Thanks for looking at it, Rodney.

 

For everyone's info setting it to Print As Image worked for Jason. The
problem is that Adobe Reader and Acrobat 6.0 have a bug in that sometimes
they disable the Print As Image checkbox so you can't access it.

Iif you know how to use the Registry Editor you can change it in there.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\General\cPrintAsImage

Then the ones that you want to use Print As Image with are Binary Keys with
names like
s1
s2
s3

The value should be the printer names (I think as you see them in the
control panel) with a period at the end.
Fax.
Canon i860.
HP 1220C.


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Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
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518 South Route 31 Suite 200
McHenry, IL 60050
www.cadzation.com
Providing Industrial Strength
PDF & DWF Solutions to the
Global CAD Marketplace.