How to speed up printing in Word?

[Alina]

Hi,

I have got a Word97 file which contains about 7 000 pages.
The task is to find a proper page and print it.
Finding any page is fast.
The problem is that after clicking Print -> Current page
printer performs Buffering which takes really a lot of time.
Then printing itself is fast.
Is there any method to speed up the Buffering?
I use the Win XP Pro SP2 and HP LJ P2015 printer.
The computer is equipped with USB 1.1 and 256 MB RAM.

Could anybody help me?

Regards,
Alina

 

[Tom Willett]

USB 2.0 and more RAM.

| Hi,
|
| I have got a Word97 file which contains about 7 000 pages.
| The task is to find a proper page and print it.
| Finding any page is fast.
| The problem is that after clicking Print -> Current page
| printer performs Buffering which takes really a lot of time.
| Then printing itself is fast.
| Is there any method to speed up the Buffering?
| I use the Win XP Pro SP2 and HP LJ P2015 printer.
| The computer is equipped with USB 1.1 and 256 MB RAM.
|
| Could anybody help me?
|
| Regards,
| Alina
|

 

[Alina]

I tried to print using another computer with USB 2.0 and 1 GB RAM
and it wasn't faster at all.
It was faster when I divided the file into small parts but in such
case finding a proper page is very difficult and it also takes time.

However I remember that I had to print pages on dimand from
a big Word97 file a few years ago and it was much faster.
The only difference was that I used Win98SE then.
I used the same Office 97 and even slower laser printer.
Is it possible that the printing is slower under WinXP Pro
than under Win98SE?

 

[Alina]

Sorry, I asked a wrong question. If I remember it well,
it is possible. I wanted to ask if there is any reason that
printing ("random") pages from a big file is faster under
Win98SE than under WinXP Pro?