Shorten delay between print request and actualprinting

Leon Goldman leon244 at comcast.net
Fri Feb 17 07:49:17 PST 2006


> On Thursday 16 February 2006 10:25, Leon Goldman wrote:
> >Is there a way to shorten the delay that is occuring from when I
> > request something be printed in an application and when the actual
> > printing begins? Right now it takes up to 2 minutes which, when I am
> > sitting there, seems like a lifetime. This was not the case before
> > for me.
> >
> This delay is an artifact of the modern GDI printer.  Even raw text has
> to be converted to gfx image format that can then be fed thru
> ghostscript in order to convert it into a rasterized gfx image of the
> original text.  AFAIK, the only way around that is to get a printer
> that understands postscript, but then the lag is offloaded to the
> printer, and you are still waiting for the output while the file is
> being rendered.
>
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Thank you. Now, at least I understand what is going on. Thank you
Leon





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