PDF Printing Pause

Question

I have a problem with printing through acrobat. After sending a large job, the printer takes an extremely long time to actually produce the pages. When printing a PDF, especially a large one, the printer rollers will start up and it'll only print one or two pages. Then, the printer completely stops. Five to ten seconds later, it'll start up again and print another couple pages. It repeats this process for all 50 pages until it finally gets everything done.

I figured it was the printer, but it isn't. The issue happens across multiple printers. It also never seems to happen to anyone else, and it only happens when I print PDFs using Acrobat. When I print from Chrome or Edge it doesn't happen. Is there a setting of some kind on Acrobat that might be making the printer take a really long time to process each page after the job is sent?

Brycesteiner · Answer

There are several things that could be causing this and it seems you may have ruled them out. Is your network fast or might be you be working on a slow wifi?

IF all is good with your computer, I would look at Acrobat's print dialog box. Click the "Advanced" button. Then there is an option to "Print as Image". If that is checked, sometimes it can take a long time if your printer has a slower processor.

If it is unchecked, you might have a lot of images and/or a tremendous amount of vectors with transparency effects applied. Does your CPU usage numbers max out when print? If so, this might be your computer trying to rasterize all of the effects just to get it to the printer.

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