The size of the file in the spooler

[sideley]

I apologise if this forum prove to be not suited to this post.

Dear all,

The printer spooler status screen displays the 1Gb as the size of a PDF file that is actually 433Kb, does this explain why the paper printing of pdf files are always so slow ? The contents of the file is not that complex, only some texts over a simple background. Could someone please explain me why ?

Mw computer runs WinXP, I have no other problem at the moment.

You can find a screen capture of what was displayed in the spooler window in the link below:

http://s19.photobucket.com/user/sideley/media/spool.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

 

[Paul]

I apologise if this forum prove to be not suited to this post.

Dear all,

The printer spooler status screen displays the 1Gb as the size of a PDF file that is actually 433Kb, does this explain why the paper printing of pdf files are always so slow ? The contents of the file is not that complex, only some texts over a simple background. Could someone please explain me why ?

Mw computer runs WinXP, I have no other problem at the moment.

You can find a screen capture of what was displayed in the spooler window in the link below:

http://s19.photobucket.com/user/sideley/media/spool.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

It's a PCL6 printer.

PDF/PostScript is not the same thing as PCL.

Perhaps what is happening, is the spooler has pixmap copies of the
doc, rendered at a high resolution.

If you were to work in Word, and print to the PCL printer, perhaps
then, fancy PCL commands could be used, and the spool file would
be smaller.

When the languages aren't the same (PDF versus PCL), rendering as
a "bunch of dots" as an intermediate step, is an option. That could
be where your big file is coming from.

They suggest "Print To File" as an experiment to try here.
Then, you could check out the size of the PCL Print To File result
and see if it is a huge pixmap or not, per page.

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5377459_pcl-pdf-conversion.html

Paul

 

[sideley]

It's a PCL6 printer.



PDF/PostScript is not the same thing as PCL.



Perhaps what is happening, is the spooler has pixmap copies of the

doc, rendered at a high resolution.



If you were to work in Word, and print to the PCL printer, perhaps

then, fancy PCL commands could be used, and the spool file would

be smaller.



When the languages aren't the same (PDF versus PCL), rendering as

a "bunch of dots" as an intermediate step, is an option. That could

be where your big file is coming from.



They suggest "Print To File" as an experiment to try here.

Then, you could check out the size of the PCL Print To File result

and see if it is a huge pixmap or not, per page.



http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5377459_pcl-pdf-conversion.html



Paul

Thanks Paul, I have more questions:

I guess the printer , HP P2055d, is Postscript compatible since it recognises lots of PS fonts. But the documentation doesn't tell much about PS features.

Assuming my printer is PS comptatible, I use Foxit reader to display and print PDF files and apparently, I can not choose to print in PostScipt from the print menu. But Is it impossible to do it without using a third party software ?

 

[Paul]

Thanks Paul, I have more questions:

I guess the printer , HP P2055d, is Postscript compatible since it recognises lots of PS fonts. But the documentation doesn't tell much about PS features.

Assuming my printer is PS comptatible, I use Foxit reader to display and print PDF files and apparently, I can not choose to print in PostScipt from the print menu. But Is it impossible to do it without using a third party software ?

I was just going by the label in your picture.

I downloaded a spec sheet and it says...

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/pscmisc/vac/us/product_pdfs/LJ_P2055d.pdf

Connectivity

Interfaces: One Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port

Languages: HP PCL6
HP PCL5c
HP postscript level 3 emulation
automatic language switching

Fonts: 45 scalable TrueType fonts and 35 PostScript fonts

Have you tried printing from Acrobat instead ? It's more likely
that Acrobat would know how to do it.

Alternately, it's a print driver issue - something needs to
either be installed or set, to get PostScript mode going ?

Automatic language switching, means the printer can recognize the
header bits of PostScript prints, and switch to the PostScript interpreter.
What isn't clear to me, is at the source end, how the application
knows it should use PCL or PostScript.

Weird. If I go to the download page, I can find...

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...62052&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=228#113266

HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PCL6
HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PostScript
HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PCL5

So maybe you remove the existing print driver, and
install a PostScript one ? Sounds like fun I
love experiments.

Paul

 

[sideley]

I was just going by the label in your picture.



I downloaded a spec sheet and it says...



http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/pscmisc/vac/us/product_pdfs/LJ_P2055d.pdf



Connectivity



Interfaces: One Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port



Languages: HP PCL6

HP PCL5c

HP postscript level 3 emulation

automatic language switching



Fonts: 45 scalable TrueType fonts and 35 PostScript fonts



Have you tried printing from Acrobat instead ? It's more likely

that Acrobat would know how to do it.



Alternately, it's a print driver issue - something needs to

either be installed or set, to get PostScript mode going ?



Automatic language switching, means the printer can recognize the

header bits of PostScript prints, and switch to the PostScript interpreter.

What isn't clear to me, is at the source end, how the application

knows it should use PCL or PostScript.



Weird. If I go to the download page, I can find...



http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...62052&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=228#113266



HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PCL6

HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PostScript

HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PCL5



So maybe you remove the existing print driver, and

install a PostScript one ? Sounds like fun I

love experiments.



Paul

Thanks a lot Paul,

So I have to replace my current PCL6 driver with a PS driver, it is to bad that I can not have both options at the same time.

Sid

 

[Paul]

Thanks a lot Paul,

So I have to replace my current PCL6 driver with a PS driver, it is to bad that I can not have both options at the same time.

Sid

Make a backup of C: first (I prefer that, to relying on
System Restore to undo all my "experiments").

Then, try installing the PostScript driver. It's possible
you can make two printer entries, one for the printer running
in PCL6 mode, and a second entry for PostScript mode. I wouldn't
know though, until I tested it, to see what would happen.

Paul