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Jon On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]>wrote: > Indeed. > > > > PDF’s are basically rasterized within the PDF program itself, and the > resulting bitmap is sent to the printer. > > > > Word, etc… send the text/font info to the printer, which rasterizes it as > part of the printing process. Vector graphics are passed tot eh printer as > well, altho bitmap graphics has to be sent as a bitmap blob. > > > > The end result tends to be longer print times and larger jobs… all in the > name “portability”. > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* Chris Orovet [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:20 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Printing PDF files > > > > When a pdf spools a 5 meg file can easily become a 200-250 meg file. No > matter what version of adobe ive used this has always been the case. > > Here is a 79 kb file that I printed as a comparison: > > > > > > It blew up to almost 400kb amost 5 times the size of the original doc. I > did a paperless conversion for my company a few years back. All docs were > converted to pdf or word. Word docs had no effect on my printers or print > servers. The pdf files slowed everything down. > > > > Regards, > > > > Chris Orovet Technical Support > > [image: ATSI] > O: (727)812-0276 Ext. 125 > > F: (727)812-0278 > > Email: *[email protected]* > > Web: *http://www.atsi-inc.com* > > * * > > * * > > “Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are > precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden > meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own > evolution.” ~Chopra > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message and any attachments are for the > sole use of the intended recipient and may contain proprietary, > confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized > review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited and may be a > violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person > responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message immediately. > > > > *From:* Mark Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:07 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Printing PDF files > > > > Is it just me, or why do PDF files print so much slower than everything > else? > > > > I have a user who is printing Adobe PDF v1.6 files (Acrobat 7) to a Canon > imagerunner 5020 copier. User is on a very nice XP SP3 box with the latest > PCL6 canon driver, printing directly over the network using RAW port 9100. > The canon copier has 256MB of memory, a 100Mb nic and a few finishing > options attached. Word and Excel files fly threw the copier at normal > speeds of 50 pages per min, but the PDF is about half that speed. Pausing a > second or two between every 2 or 3 pages. The user are printing text PDFs > only. I’ve taken a windows print server out of the way and still slow. I > have tried different drivers like the latest PS driver, HP LJ III, HP LJ 4, > ect but still slow. I’m leaning towards the copier’s CPU just being slow, > but any tricks out there to help it along? > > > > Options currently set: > > Auto-Rotate & Center is off > > The only finishing is to offset the pages between print jobs > > Print quality is set to text (opposed to graphics) > > > > TIA, Mark > > > > > Mark Scott > IT Manager > +1.919.232.5900 > +1.919.232.5901 fax > > Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP <http://www.hpg.com/> > 1500 Sunday Drive, Suite 300 > Raleigh, North Carolina, 27607 > [image: Member of CPAmerica International] > > > > IRS Circular 230 Disclosure: To ensure compliance with requirements imposed > by the IRS, we inform you that any tax advice contained in this > communication (including any attachments) was not intended or written to be > used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties under > the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to > another party any transaction or matter addressed herein. > > The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or proprietary, or > trade secret, or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, > dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, > this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is > strictly prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the > sender and delete the material from any computer. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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