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Printing pdf is very slow on network printer

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
March 23, 2009
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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.

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RedFox7070

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having the same issue as well and will try the advise given as i too have alot of

changes if it works.

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ctwilson7Correct answer

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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.

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idsecure11

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Great directions thank you. I actually thought something was wrong with my printer but it

prints normally now. Thanks a bunch.

Damon

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ctwilson7

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Excellent! Glad to hear it. If this works for others I'd appreciate hearing about it. I may have to deploy this setting change to 1000's of PC's at my company and I'd like more evidence that it works and doesn't cause other problems.

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Januaryco

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I have the same issue as the person that original put of this post...But the Adobe very that we have on office service is

Adobe 5.0 , tried to update ...in the help take bit it didnt give me this option.

I think we are running Windows Server 2000. Can anyone help. Please

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Anonymous

Hi -did you ever get an answer re slow printing - my adobe is slow to print also. I do not see many helpful replies on the BB system.

~graffiti

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/michael Kazlows question applies to you as well. Without more info, we can't do anything except take some lucky guesses.

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jc25dot00

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I have a user who is seeing this very same problem, but with Acrobat Pro 9. The problem just started when he upgraded his apps to the CS4 versions. He completely uninstalled all of his Adobe products and then reinstalled them, but the problem persists. He is running Mac OS 10.5. Whenever he tries to print a pdf, the computer hangs while spooling. The Force Quit menu says Adobe stops responding, but it will eventually print after a very long time. When it does start to print, it only prints about one page per minute. This is happening on two networked HP printers, a LaserJet 4250 and 4350. I tried to print as image and that speeds it up somewhat, but it is still very slow. I also turned off the RAM Disk setting on the printer, but that didn't help. Any other tips would be greatly appreciated.

MichaelKazlow

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Computer hardware specs, OS, network, driver?

Mike

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