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Old 08-04-2008, 04:36 PM
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Default Printing Problems with word 2007

I am a realtor and use microsoft word 2007 to produce graphic intensive flyers. I have combed the web and microsoft's website for an answer to a problem i have. When I design the flyer and compress the photos it shows there is about 2-2.5mg file saved. When I print it, it takes forever and indicates up to 100 mg for a two page document. I cannot figure out why it is doing that and as you can imagine, it takes forever to print one much less 20. I am at a loss for an answer
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Printers don't understand the jpg format. The printer driver expands the graphic file into a bitmap which is quite likely to be ten times the size of the original. The print queue shows you the queued data that the printer's about to be given. a 100MB page isn't a total surprise. You can reduce it by reducing the dots per inch requirement for the graphics from 600 to 300, they'll still look the same (in my opinion) but that's not your problem, 100MB a page is pretty conventional.

I think you're printing through a USB1.1 port, or into a very slow old printer. A 100MB bitmap page like that ought to process in under 5 seconds on a modern setup.

Would you like to describe your equipment, with a few model codes? The computer and the printer? If they really are recent then maybe the USB lead is defective (lots are) and a quality replacement would stop your system falling back to slow rates.
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Thanks for your quick reply. I am using the photo compress tool in word which says they are compressed down to 220dpi already.
It is run through linksys EF2J24 10/100 autosensing hub into konica minolta biz hub 250 network laser printer.

By the way it doesn't seem to matter which computer i use to try and print this file. The results are the same.
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The LAN would take you down to a minute a page if it were settling at 10Mbit/sec and I can think of a few reasons why it might do that. I agree you don't have a USB port involved and
you've no reason to believe there's cabling problems.

Have you anyone on the staff that you can ask to check you're running everything on that bit of the network at 100Base-T 100Mbit/sec? Or are there no staff to fall back on.
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