My word document grows from 371KB to 21MB in print queue.

[Mike Wolowicz]

I have a 9 page Word document with 18 separate tables and a small
amount of text. Each table is about 7 rows long and 2 columns wide.
Almost all the cells in each table are empty (it's a budget template)
except for some text in the first row.

The file is 371KB. When I print to a network printer, the file size in
the print queue grows to 21MB and it takes forever (about 10 min) to
print.

The document has been printed on several different printers from
several different computers. Each time the same thing happens.

Anyone know what's going on here?

Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When a document is rasterized for the printer, each page is converted to a
bitmap, so print spool files are normally very large. Using the printer's
built-in fonts will help.

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

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