Hi Everyone:
Just wanted to give a follow-up to my print issues. I had to rush a bit to
get the app tested and into production using 5.0.

Thanks to Phil, I found that TextLayout had a bug (4480930) and was the
primary reason for the large spool files. The bug was fixed in 1.5 and
reduced my spool files to the following:
Printer Original Spool  Final Spool
HP LJ 4100      4MB                     ~840K
HP LJ 4200      12MB                    ~440K

The suggestions that Karen made about disabling advanced printing helped
greatly on JDK 1.4 shrinking both spools by 50% (~2MB and ~6MB respectively)
but had no effect when using JDK 5.

The 4100 spool is still a bit large, but the users are happy for now since
it takes about 1/3 of the time in most cases. I also found that, for
whatevever reason, the PCL 6 dirvers were slower to spool (and sometimes
would fail) on the 4100. I switched to the PCL 5e drivers and spooling was
much faster and always worked.

Many thanks to Phil, Karen, and Mars for their input.

Mars,
Originally had the server set up on RedHat Enterprise. Application would not
print to a printer other than the default. I'm not a Linux guru like I would
like to be, so I suppose our sysadmin could have configured it incorrectly.
They would prefer that I use RedHat. Any thoughts?

Thanks again,
Justin

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Greetings Justin,
not sure about 'doze, in lunix land, lowering print resolution from 720x720
(normal) to 320x320 (draft) quality would reduce spool sizes by a factor of
2!
CUPS is very very good for jdk1.5.0

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