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OUtlook 2000 printing an attachment

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by tressabenson

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Does anyone know if printing directly from an attachment without saving it on the hard drive would cause printing problems? Do you feel that saving an attachment to the workstations hard drive would create less traffic on the network?

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by magetower

No it shouldn't and yes it can.

Whenever you open an attachment in Outlook it writes a temporary copy of the file to a temp directory on your hard drive then opens the application associated with that file type. This is even if you select to print the attachement directly from the message. By saving the attachement to a local drive you eliminate the overhead of retreiving the info from the Exchange server every time you want to open or print the file. One thing to look out for is very large attachements. They can make it seem your system has locked up when it is really a matter of how long it takes to download to your system.

Hope this helps...

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