Excel print jobs

[J]

Hello,
I'm troubleshooting some real slow print jobs from Excel to an HP
Photosmart b8330 locally attached with usb.
The spreadsheets (I didn't make them!) include some .bmp. The
spreadsheet itself is about 2MB. When I send it to the printer and
bring up the queue, it shows the size of the print job as 60MB. Why
is this? Why would the print job show as 30x the size of the
spreadsheet itself?
Thanks for any ideas.

 

[Bob I]

It's the printing of the bmp images that causes the issue.

 

[J]

It's the printing of the bmp images that causes the issue.




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Any idea why the spreadsheet incl bmp is only 2mb but the print queue
shows 60MB?

 

[Bob I]

Any idea why the spreadsheet incl bmp is only 2mb but the print queue
shows 60MB?

I suspect it is because the entire page has to be converted to an image
so as to print the bmp as part of it. Some printers can handle text and
images, some can't.