Printing small file turns in to huge file in print queue

Hi Guys,

I have a customer who is printing a small file, 600kb pdf. It's a network
plan, lots of lines etc. Once the file gets to the print queue however, it's
a 9mb file and takes around 5 minutes to process.

Any idea what is causing this?

Thanks,

send it to me and I'll get back to you
--
John the West Ham fan


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"Gorge" <> wrote in message
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> Hi Guys,
>
> I have a customer who is printing a small file, 600kb pdf. It's a network
> plan, lots of lines etc. Once the file gets to the print queue however,
> it's
> a 9mb file and takes around 5 minutes to process.
>
> Any idea what is causing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:28:13 +1200, "Gorge" <> wrote:

>Hi Guys,
>
>I have a customer who is printing a small file, 600kb pdf. It's a network
>plan, lots of lines etc. Once the file gets to the print queue however, it's
>a 9mb file and takes around 5 minutes to process.
>
>Any idea what is causing this?
>
>Thanks,
>

PDF is a very compact format. 600mb is actually a very sizable PDF
file for that reason. It's possibly being converted to Postscript or
a rasterized language by the printer driver and growing because of it.

In other words, it's probably "normal".

+Bob+ wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:28:13 +1200, "Gorge" <> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I have a customer who is printing a small file, 600kb pdf. It's a network
>> plan, lots of lines etc. Once the file gets to the print queue however, it's
>> a 9mb file and takes around 5 minutes to process.
>>
>> Any idea what is causing this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>
> PDF is a very compact format. 600mb is actually a very sizable PDF
> file for that reason. It's possibly being converted to Postscript or
> a rasterized language by the printer driver and growing because of it.
>
> In other words, it's probably "normal".
>

You could try to Print to File and compare size of the out file - it would
contain everything (including control characters).

Jan M. Nelken