Printing color results in very large spool file

[Atle]

Hi,
I have a ppt presentation, it is about 300Kb when saved.
However, when I go to print is (two slides only), it gets to be 55Mb, and
very slow to get to the printer as a result.
If I set it to print Grayscale, it is MUCH smaller (16Kb).

There is very limited graphics in the presentation. I have one background
picture for the first slide (originally a jpg file, about 200kB), and one
for other slides (jpg, about 130Kb).

What's going on?
What can I do?

Thanks to anyone who can help!

Atle

 

[Guest]

Do you have a gradient background on your presentation? Or is there any transparency applied to any object on your slides? Both of these can cause the bloats when printing.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a ppt presentation, it is about 300Kb when saved.

However, when I go to print is (two slides only), it gets to be 55Mb, and
very slow to get to the printer as a result.
If I set it to print Grayscale, it is MUCH smaller (16Kb).

There is very limited graphics in the presentation. I have one background
picture for the first slide (originally a jpg file, about 200kB), and one
for other slides (jpg, about 130Kb).

You can't judge the real size of a jpg from the size of the disk file.

Try this:

Open one of the JPGs in any photo editing program then resave as BMP.

The BMP gives you a better idea of the amount of data PPT will have to send to
the printer.

While you've got the file open, note its size in pixels.
For a letter-size printout, you generally don't need the image to be much more
than 1500 pixels across the long dimension (the one that'll print to the 11" of
a lettersize sheet).

 

[Atle]

Don't have any of these: No gradient, no overlap, transparency as far as I
can find.

Any note: It it MUCH bigger when printing color.
Does it simply have to do with with PPT does with color, or depend on the
printer?

A

Do you have a gradient background on your presentation? Or is there any

transparency applied to any object on your slides? Both of these can cause
the bloats when printing.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi,
I have a ppt presentation, it is about 300Kb when saved.
However, when I go to print is (two slides only), it gets to be 55Mb, and
very slow to get to the printer as a result.
If I set it to print Grayscale, it is MUCH smaller (16Kb).

There is very limited graphics in the presentation. I have one background
picture for the first slide (originally a jpg file, about 200kB), and one
for other slides (jpg, about 130Kb).

What's going on?
What can I do?

Thanks to anyone who can help!

Atle

 

[Guest]

Did you see Steve's response to your original post? Did you try making the JPG smaller as he suggested?

Echo

Don't have any of these: No gradient, no overlap, transparency as far as I
can find.

Any note: It it MUCH bigger when printing color.
Does it simply have to do with with PPT does with color, or depend on the
printer?

A

Do you have a gradient background on your presentation? Or is there any

transparency applied to any object on your slides? Both of these can cause
the bloats when printing.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi,
I have a ppt presentation, it is about 300Kb when saved.
However, when I go to print is (two slides only), it gets to be 55Mb, and
very slow to get to the printer as a result.
If I set it to print Grayscale, it is MUCH smaller (16Kb).

There is very limited graphics in the presentation. I have one background
picture for the first slide (originally a jpg file, about 200kB), and one
for other slides (jpg, about 130Kb).

What's going on?
What can I do?

Thanks to anyone who can help!

Atle

 

[Atle]

That did it. Thanks!.

A

You can't judge the real size of a jpg from the size of the disk file.

Try this:

Open one of the JPGs in any photo editing program then resave as BMP.

The BMP gives you a better idea of the amount of data PPT will have to send to
the printer.

While you've got the file open, note its size in pixels.
For a letter-size printout, you generally don't need the image to be much more
than 1500 pixels across the long dimension (the one that'll print to the 11" of
a lettersize sheet).