Slow printing of multiple copies

[Randomiser]

Multiple copies of documents sometimes seem to reinitialise the printer for
each copy instead of only once at the start of the job. This makes printing
very slow with significant pauses between copies. I'm using Publisher 2007
on Vista to a usb-connected Xerox Phases 6180 colour laser which has 128 MB
of memory and most documents work fine. Can anyone help?

Hugh

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you have gradients in your publication? Try an experiment. Save the
gradient as a .png-- insert back into your document. Try printing again.
You could take a look at the spooler to see how your documents are sent to
the printer.

 

[LVTravel]

Multiple copies of documents sometimes seem to reinitialise the printer
for each copy instead of only once at the start of the job. This makes
printing very slow with significant pauses between copies. I'm using
Publisher 2007 on Vista to a usb-connected Xerox Phases 6180 colour laser
which has 128 MB of memory and most documents work fine. Can anyone help?

Hugh

One possible answer in addition to Mary's.

A full page color graphic in high printer resolution may be exceeding the
128 MB of RAM in the printer. If so, the computer needs to spool the
information out to the print engine processor each time to recreate each new
copy. If the memory is not filling up then the page is already totally in
memory and doesn't have to be sent each time.

 

[Randomiser]

Mary

Thanks for this.

The current problem is with an A6 invite printing 4-up on A4. There are 4
small holly graphics per invite plus a piece of word-art with a self-created
fill. So the gradient thing might help. How would I look at the spooler?

LVTravel thanks too -I had thought of a memory problem, but don't think this
would fill up 128MB?

Hugh

 

[Mary Sauer]

The spooler can be found in the printer folder, right-click your printer,
properties, Advanced tab.