document is slow to print

V

Vivian

Can someone please help!! My document takes forever to print or it won't
print at all. I have graphics in the document as well as words. I don't have
this problem when I print other files, only Word documents.
 
R

Rae Drysdale

Graphics will take longer to print. If you can compress the graphics it
should shorten the printing time. Click on a graphic and on the picture
toolbar you will see a small square with arrows pointing on each corner.
Click this to compress the graphic. If your document is long, you could try
to split it into smaller documents.
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

It depends on the printer type, too. I was printing a document the other day
with a full-page graphic (compressed), and I finally had to give up on my
laser printer and send that page to the inkjet (a laser printer has to
rasterize an entire page before printing; inkjets are line printers). It's
possible the LaserJet might ultimately have printed it, but I didn't have
the patience to wait (especially since I was manually duplexing).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 

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