Adobe Printing in WinXP

[Dave]

When I try to print an Adobe Acrobat document (using v7.0), it takes a long
time...well over a minute...to do so. I realise this is because the spool
filesize is ballooning to well into the hundreds of MBs.

I've done some reading, and found suggestions like using a PostScript driver
instead of a PCL one, but that's not an option as I work in a law firm, and
need to use the PCL driver for other printing reasons.

There must be some fix or reason for this happening. Does anyone have a
suggestion? We are using WindowsXP Professional, and Adobe reader v7.0.

Thanks

 

[Yves Leclerc]

When I try to print an Adobe Acrobat document (using v7.0), it takes a long
time...well over a minute...to do so. I realise this is because the spool
filesize is ballooning to well into the hundreds of MBs.

I've done some reading, and found suggestions like using a PostScript driver
instead of a PCL one, but that's not an option as I work in a law firm, and
need to use the PCL driver for other printing reasons.

There must be some fix or reason for this happening. Does anyone have a
suggestion? We are using WindowsXP Professional, and Adobe reader v7.0.

Thanks

A postscript driver and a PCL driver both can "coexist" on most Windows PCs.
You need to know if your printer has a postscript driver.

 

[Dave]

A postscript driver and a PCL driver both can "coexist" on most Windows
PCs.
You need to know if your printer has a postscript driver.

Can they coexist as the same printer, or would they have to be two seperate
printers.

 

[Bob I]

Actually you can have multiple "default" configurations pointing at the
same hardware. For instance one with duplexing, one with color disabled,
one with "envelopes" etc.