Print spooler memory allocation

[CWatters]

I have a rather poor quality CAD program that creats 100MByte print jobs if
the drawing contains text. This really slows down printing. Is there a way
to allocate more resources to the print spooler (or ?) that might help speed
it up?

 

[Jon]

Try raising its priority via Task Manager (ctrl-alt-delete)

Right-click Spooler.exe > Set Priority > High

Jon

 

[Jon]

spoolsv.exe rather

Try raising its priority via Task Manager (ctrl-alt-delete)

Right-click Spooler.exe > Set Priority > High

Jon

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

I have a rather poor quality CAD program that creats 100MByte print
jobs if the drawing contains text. This really slows down printing.
Is there a way to allocate more resources to the print spooler (or ?)
that might help speed it up?

If you have plenty of RAM installed, you may want to move the spool
directory to a RAM-Disk. Control Panel > Printers > File menu > Server
Properties > Advanced tab > Spool Folder.

 

[bob]

If you don't need to play with CAD while it's printing, you can turn
spooling off.

Right click My Computer > Manage > expand Services and Applications > click
Services > goto Print Spooler > double click and press stop and mess with
the options.

It'll just cause CAD to directly print to the printer without having to save
anything.

Just a thought,

bob

 

[CWatters]

Thanks for the replies I'll give then a go.