How do I adjust printer speed in Word?

[Guest]

Whenever I print Word documents, no matter how 'small', the printer prints
very slowly - I'd say half or less of its normal speed. When I print Excel
documents, they print just fine at normal speed. This never was an issue in
the past but I just got a new laptop and the newest version of Office was
installed on it and I'm wondering if I need to adjust a software setting on
Word.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Chances are, you're out of memory. Windows XP and Word need 512 MB of
memory to work properly on a laptop: if you have less than that, things will
be slow.


On 17/8/06 10:43 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "Bill @ HC" <Bill @

Whenever I print Word documents, no matter how 'small', the printer prints
very slowly - I'd say half or less of its normal speed. When I print Excel
documents, they print just fine at normal speed. This never was an issue in
the past but I just got a new laptop and the newest version of Office was
installed on it and I'm wondering if I need to adjust a software setting on
Word.

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[CyberTaz]

You might also check the printer settings (Properties) in the Print Dialog
box. Higher quality output, graphics & color cause slower printing. Other
factors can be involved too, like connection speed (USB 1.1/USB 2.0) or even
the condition of the cable.

 

[Guest]

The new laptop has 1.7 GHz Pentium processor so I don't think that's the
issue - my old desktop was much less robust and I never had this problem
with it.

Chances are, you're out of memory. Windows XP and Word need 512 MB of
memory to work properly on a laptop: if you have less than that, things will
be slow.


On 17/8/06 10:43 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "Bill @ HC" <Bill @

Whenever I print Word documents, no matter how 'small', the printer prints
very slowly - I'd say half or less of its normal speed. When I print Excel
documents, they print just fine at normal speed. This never was an issue in
the past but I just got a new laptop and the newest version of Office was
installed on it and I'm wondering if I need to adjust a software setting on
Word.

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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Guest]

I looked at all the possible printer settings - do you have advice for me as
to whichones I might adjust in this case? I have 132 MB of resident memory in
my printer so I can't bump that up anymore and I don't know what else I might
adjust.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If it's an inkjet printer, there's usually a "quality" setting that will
have the most bearing on the speed. For example, my printer has Best,
Normal, Fast Normal, and Draft. I only ever use Fast Normal (default) and
Best; Best is significantly slower (and sometimes not perceptibly better).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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