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March 23, 2009
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Printing pdf is very slow on network printer

  • March 23, 2009
  • 16 replies
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Hi,

When I print to the network printer in the office it is printing very slow. It lasts a long time before the print job has been sent to the printer, after sending the print job to the printer it lasts a very long time before the printer prints. It prints page 1 and than I have to wait 2 minutes before the second page prints.
Version of adobe reader is 9.1.

Can someone help me with this issue?

I am desperate.

Correct answer ctwilson7

If Adobe Acrobat Reader prints slowly try the following:

1.             Open a PDF file

2.             From the menu, select File > Print

3.             From the dialog displayed, click on the Advanced button at the bottom

4.             On the Advanced Print Setup dialog, make sure that “Let printer determine colors” is CHECKED.

5.             Click OK and OK to print the document.

This worked for me.

16 replies

aydinyusifli
Participant
May 1, 2026

Try removing and readding the printer. Also, wrong paper type may result in very long processing. For example, in the picture, selecting A4 while it should be letter, may result in the problem. Usually this has nothing to do with the paper size, I think it just represents the file’s properties.

 

Participant
March 25, 2025

I forget trying to print from the Adobe PDF.  Escpecially with large print projects. Just right click on the pdf, select "open with", I selected Google Chrome.  When I print from Chrome- it is fast and more like normal.  Your welcome.

Participant
April 25, 2024

My printer is going slow and that didn't work for me.  Its still printing one page a few seconds at a time. 

Participant
November 16, 2021

This worked for me, saved me hours. Thank you

Known Participant
July 6, 2021

Does anyone have a solution to this multi year problem?  I am printing, on a Mac, to a HP M277 DW.  When I print a document with Preview or Chrome or virtually any other program, it prints quickly.  When I print with Adobe Acrobat, minutes go by before a document is printed.  I have tried to set the printer to determine color but that doesn't seem to have an effect on the issue.  Can anyone help?  Thanks.

 

Participant
July 10, 2021

Yea, I just followed the directions from 2009, and they worked! It was driving me crazy...

Participant
April 9, 2021

It's amazing that this post has celebrated it's 12th birthday. 

I can print a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro at about 4 to 5 minutes a page, it's a 41 page document.

I tried it on Chrome & Firefox at about 20 to 30 seconds a page.  The quality is not up  to par.

I installed Acrobat Reader and printed at about 20 to 30 seconds a page with expected quality.

So vanilla install of Pro & Reader, one prints slow the other normal.  It's a good bandaid but not the cure!

Participant
January 4, 2021

HELLO

MY LAPTOP PRINTS 60 TO 180 PAGES/MINUTE

STILL IT IS VERY SLOW FOR ME 

MY SPECIES ARE 4GHZ (6CORE) RYZEN 4600 H  

NAVIDA 1650 MOBLIE GRAPHICS CARD 

AGE 15DAYS

OS WINDOWS 10 HOME

PLEASE HELP THERE IS BARELY NO SPPED AT ALL I NEED 1000 PAGES.SECOND

THERE ARE NO VIRUS IN MY COMPUTER THIS PROGRAME REALY USES 1% OF CPU AND NEVER USED DEDICATED GRAPHICS CARD TILL NOW !!!!!!!

PLEASE INCREASE USAGE AND RELEASE 64-BIT PDF ADOBE ACROBAT PRO DC

I AM USING ADOBE ACROBAT PRO DC LATEST VERSION 

 

Participant
January 4, 2021

MORE OVER MY LAPTOP HAS SSD MINIMUM 500MB/S WHILE COPYING PDF UPTO 2500MB/S ADOBE PLEASE HELP ME

Participant
May 22, 2020

Running an HP Laserjet 1320 on Mac OS 10.12.6 with new Adobe Reader DC, but this problem was previously intermittent. Have no "Advanced" button, or "Let printer determine colors" option. Printing some pdfs takes as much as 25 minutes.

Participant
January 21, 2016

The fact that this is even an issue is complete BS. PDFs are supposed to be convenient: "portable document format." Half the employees here have quit using Acrobat because it's bloated, and some don't even use Reader for the same reason. PDF is no longer even portable - PDFs are often an order of magnitude larger than the same document in Word. 25 years ago, John Warnock wrote: ‘Imagine being able to send full text and graphics documents (newspapers, magazine articles, technical manuals etc.) over electronic mail distribution networks. These documents could be viewed on any machine and any selected document could be printed locally. This capability would truly change the way information is managed.’ I think Adobe has forgotten what the purpose of PDF was in the first place.

Participant
September 2, 2014

Hi

For me, the solution to this problem of slow print was to check the option "PRINT IN GRAY SCALE (BLACK AND WHITE)". I had this issue with two HP 2055dn printers installed in a printer server, and just in some pdf documents was too much slow the print

See the screen:

Douglas F. Alves

Hospital Estadual Américo Brasiliense

Américo Brasiliense - SP - Brasil