printing

thorsten · Post by **thorsten** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:22 pm

Hi Ian and JD.

received the data today. I am trying to print it: a nightmare. Takes literally hours. How can I speed it up?

Thorsten

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:00 am

I haven't printed the rules but did print one of the reference sheets and that seemed to go fine. I will try to print some of the rules tonight but as my home printer is something of a beast it may not be a very representative test.

What kind of printer are you using Thorsten?

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:19 pm

It has got to be a printer memory / connection speed issue.

My fancy 64 Mb colour laser has just thrown out a full duplex 2 up (it uses less paper with two pages per side) copy in five minutes flat

Not sure what the solution is for people will less well endowed printers but I would start by suggetsing you look at the printer properties and consider reducing the resolution to 150 or 75 dpi and trying a page or two.

Hammy

thorsten · Post by **thorsten** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:58 am

Aha,

fine. Unfortunately I am not into computers and do not understand a single word...

Thorsten

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:42 am

Thorsten,

If you try to print the file before you click OK click on properties (I am assuming you are running Windows). Once in printer properties you will have a number of possible options (probably several pages of them), what you are looking for is print quality or resolution and you want to reduce the quality from 300 or 600 or whatever it is to a lower value. This should significantly reduce the size of the print file and mean that your printer copes better albeit with a slightly lower quality.

Hope that makes more sense.

Hammy