Slow Printing Not SP2 Related

[Guest]

I am running XP Home (with SP2). I have an HP Laserjet 6P attached to LPT1. I
print using a template that has my letterhead. The company name at top is a
combination of Imprint MT Shadow and Palace Script MT fonts. The body of the
letter is usually Times New Roman. With the company name it takes 40 seconds
to print a page. Without the company name it prints within seconds. All fonts
appear to be Truetype. Any ideas? Thanks.
George Sullivan

 

[Chuck]

It might be that the body of the document uses built in printer fonts and
the letter head does not. Using all the same type of fonts (all built-in,
or all windows based) may speed things up. Generally, the built-in printer
fonts allow faster printing than windows based fonts.

This whole subject area gets quite involved. The "windows based" fonts I
referred to include any font type that is sent to the printer in a graphics
or vector mode. Built-in printer fonts are generally used by sending a form
of ascii characters to the printer. The amount of data sent to a printer
using built in fonts is considerably less than that sent in a graphics font.

Post Script printers in post script mode are another major variation. Even
though there are standard printer based fonts that are a part of post
script, a document may exist in a graphics format, or even a mixed mode
form.