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

  • 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
    New Participant
    April 9, 2010

    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
    New Participant
    April 8, 2010

    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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      David Rossberg
      New Participant
      April 27, 2018

      I am glad that this helped others, but unfortunately for us this made no difference.

      After reinstalling Windows 10 on all machines PDF printing became extremely slow. Like 5-10 minutes for a single page. It also clogs up all the other files in the queue.

      Because it was working before with the same hardware and OS, this must be due to a setting or driver issue.

      Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated. 

      /David

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      David Rossberg
      New Participant
      April 27, 2018

      I was able to solve this after all.

      I changed the driver from Ricoh class driver to PCL6 V4 Driver for Universal Print and speed is back to normal.

      /David

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        Januaryco
        New Participant
        May 13, 2009

        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
        April 26, 2009

        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
        ~graffiti
        Brainiac
        April 26, 2009

        /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
          New Participant
          May 11, 2009

          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
          MichaelKazlow
          Brainiac
          March 23, 2009
          Computer hardware specs, OS, network, driver?

          Mike
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