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by mlayton 1 view

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In a new install of Visio 2000, when drawings are printed, they spool to the printer at unrealistic sizes. For example, a one page 180K drawing showed up at the printer as an 11.1 meg file and took two hours to print. I have changed printers and the same thing has happened. All printers are network printers.

Any ideas?

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by mlayton

A few more details as I try to find a solution: one, it prints just fine to a parallel port printer. Two, it prints just fine to a network printer that is running of pserver. The jobs that spool to large amounts occur on NDPS printers (we are Novell).

by al

I suggest the following. It sounds to me like the printer drivers are overcomplicating the printing process when carried out across the network. I have come across this before in which a Powerpoint document which contained a large number of complex Visio diagrams (8MB in size) which hung the PC from which it was sent during spooling. The solution was to SIMPLIFY the printing process - how, by changing the device driver of the printer to which you are printing to something simple and yet genericto most printers - the HP Laserjet III / IIID driver works very well for this. Since then my user has had no problems printing this 8MB document (imagine what size this was when it reached the printer!!)

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