Nothing I do will speed up printing.

[Guest]

I've tried everything, but the slide print at about one per three minutes.
Have plenty of disk space, closed all other programs, turned off background
printing, etc. What could be the cause? Thanks!

 

[Echo S]

I've tried everything, but the slide print at about one per three minutes.
Have plenty of disk space, closed all other programs, turned off background
printing, etc. What could be the cause? Thanks!

Let's start with the basics.

Printer version?
Network printer, or installed directly to computer?
Version of PPT?
Version of Windows?

What's on the slides? Transparent images? Gradients? Just text?
How big is the PPT file?

 

[Guest]

Hi Echo S -
Thanks for responding to my question/dilemma. I'm using PPT 2002, Windows
XP, network printer, HP LaserJet 5Si. The presentation is B/W, mostly text,
but I'm using a basic shape with texture for the title and text portions on
each slide; only one has radial diagram from the PPT diagram files. There
are 22 slides in the presentation. I used a gradient fill for popouts on the
diagram, with text in the popouts. My master slides have the company logo on
them, with GoudyHandToolBT font. No animation. I'm printing in Grayscale.
Hope this helps.

Thanks again!
LiHa

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for responding to my question/dilemma. I'm using PPT 2002, Windows

XP, network printer, HP LaserJet 5Si. The presentation is B/W, mostly text,
but I'm using a basic shape with texture for the title and text portions on
each slide; only one has radial diagram from the PPT diagram files. There
are 22 slides in the presentation. I used a gradient fill for popouts on the
diagram, with text in the popouts. My master slides have the company logo on
them, with GoudyHandToolBT font. No animation. I'm printing in Grayscale.

I've seen presentations where logos slowed printing to a crawl, either because
it was a pasted in bitmap that was way higher rez than needed or because it was
a graphic with curves (your GoudyHandToolBT text, for example) converted to
curves or line segments. That can create a huge amount of data.

Try deleting the logo from the slide master (working on a COPY of your
presentation, o' course) and print again.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hi LiHa,

Let's try an experiment.

1) Open you presentation
2) Select File => Save As =>Change the 'Save as Type' to PNG => Choose a new
name => Click Save
3) Click 'Save All Slides'
4) Close your presentation
5) Open a new presentation
6) Insert => Picture => New Photo Album
7) Navigate to the folder you created
8) Select all the slides
9) Click OK
10) Delete the first slide (New Photo Album blah, bah blah)
11) Print the new presentation.

What speed?


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