Printing Issue
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From: David Parkes on 27 May 2010 11:50 Hi There, Please could someone explain what is going on here. We have an SBS 2003 server which is a print server for a oce print device. When we print a 700kb document out it is in the print spooler and it gets to about 70Mb spooled and still doesn't print. How come it gets so large? Is there anyway around this. The user says there isn't any pictures as such in there just office clip and word art!?! Thanks
From: Cliff Galiher - MVP on 27 May 2010 15:22 This is primarily controlled by the printer driver. While many computers can use compression and other tricks to keep memory footprints down, many printers cannot. Think of the difference between a jpeg photo and a full RAW uncompressed image taken by a D-SLR camera. In many cases, a print driver has to take a word document and "convert" it into a language or just raw data that the printer can handle. Vector images get comverted to bitmaps, jpegs get decompressed, and other similar changes can cause a file that is very small in word to be very large as it is sent to the printer. So a large spool size can, in some instances, be perfectly normal behavior. Higher end printers that use PS or PCL are better for this as those print languages offer their own efficiencies in printing. There is a reason that there are "business class" printers, even in the inkjet world. It is also possible that you have a misbehaving driver that isn't being as efficient as possible. Combine the two and bad things happen. -- Cliff Galiher Microsoft has opened the Small Business Server forum on Technet! Check it out! http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/smallbusinessserver/threads Addicted to newsgroups? Read about the NNTP Bridge for MS Forums. "David Parkes" <wibble(a)wobble.com> wrote in message news:OoY9RRb$KHA.4316(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hi There, > > Please could someone explain what is going on here. We have an SBS 2003 > server which is a print server for a oce print device. When we print a > 700kb document out it is in the print spooler and it gets to about 70Mb > spooled and still doesn't print. How come it gets so large? Is there > anyway around this. The user says there isn't any pictures as such in > there just office clip and word art!?! > > Thanks
From: David Parkes on 2 Jun 2010 05:07 Hi Cliff Thanks for your reply. I thought as much :-) "Cliff Galiher - MVP" <cgaliher(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:Oi2jEId$KHA.980(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > This is primarily controlled by the printer driver. While many computers > can use compression and other tricks to keep memory footprints down, many > printers cannot. Think of the difference between a jpeg photo and a full > RAW uncompressed image taken by a D-SLR camera. In many cases, a print > driver has to take a word document and "convert" it into a language or > just raw data that the printer can handle. Vector images get comverted to > bitmaps, jpegs get decompressed, and other similar changes can cause a > file that is very small in word to be very large as it is sent to the > printer. So a large spool size can, in some instances, be perfectly normal > behavior. Higher end printers that use PS or PCL are better for this as > those print languages offer their own efficiencies in printing. There is > a reason that there are "business class" printers, even in the inkjet > world. > > It is also possible that you have a misbehaving driver that isn't being as > efficient as possible. Combine the two and bad things happen. > > -- > Cliff Galiher > Microsoft has opened the Small Business Server forum on Technet! Check it > out! > http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/smallbusinessserver/threads > Addicted to newsgroups? Read about the NNTP Bridge for MS Forums. > > "David Parkes" <wibble(a)wobble.com> wrote in message > news:OoY9RRb$KHA.4316(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Hi There, >> >> Please could someone explain what is going on here. We have an SBS 2003 >> server which is a print server for a oce print device. When we print a >> 700kb document out it is in the print spooler and it gets to about 70Mb >> spooled and still doesn't print. How come it gets so large? Is there >> anyway around this. The user says there isn't any pictures as such in >> there just office clip and word art!?! >> >> Thanks >
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