On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:47 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 11:44 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > Okay.. Now this is a first I've heard of. I printed a few copies on an > > HP ColorLaserJet (can't remember the Model) and it came out in like 10 > > min. > > > > HP LaserJet 5N also no issues. > > > > Is this a bubblejet? Acroread/Acrobat/xpdf/gpdf?? Would be good to know > > if it's the printer or the pdf or the pdf app. > > > > What if you print a NON graphic page? How long that does take? > > > > 36 pages = 3 hours = 1 hour ~10pages = ~5 min per page?? > > > I printed on the HP4600, > an intermediate level business color laser printer. I print pdf's and manuals > and long things like this all the time. I just printed the .pdf for Firewall > Builder, about 113 pages. I didn't time it but it was under an hour, and that > was doing two sided, which I also did with your magazine. We don't use this > printer for non-graphic pages - it was bought specifically for doing color > graphics. The software was Acrobat, ver 6. Okay.. I don't know what else to say. What I did found was page rendering using XPDF or Acroread 5 on a Win Machine is much faster than when I open it on Acroread 7 on my Linux Box. Not sure if that may be one culprit. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:09:02 up 2 days, 19:38, 7 users, load average: 1.56, 0.63, 0.39
