BIG Printfiles when printing on Laserprinters

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Frank Hauptlorenz

Hello.

If we print a presentation on a laserprinter really big printfiles are
generated (>1GByte). Why?
If we print to a normal bubble jet it prints very well. What can we do? Our
pcs are not able
to hand so big files...

The presentation does NOT contain very big images... They are certainly
normal.

Cheers,
Frank!
 
Check the print driver. Most likely you are using a Post Script (PS) print
driver, which PPT has a hard time communicating with. Go to a non-postscript
driver and your problems should be resolved.

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No, they are no PS-Drivers. One of them is a HP 6 P with PCL-Driver and
the other one is a tally T8006 with its own printer language.

Cheers,
Frank!
 
Look for transparent images, images that have transparency applied to them
using the transparency wand in PPT, any shapes with any sort of
transparent/semi-transparent fill, particularly if they're sitting over other
shapes. Some gradients may also complicate things.

All of these things can contribute to huge print files.

Also, you mention that your images aren't that big ... how do you measure that?
Big (as in "not many inches on the PPT page") and big (as in "not many kb when
the original file is saved to BMP") are two very different things.
 
Frank,
How many different fonts do you use in the presentation? Your print spool
file may be large due to the need to process the fonts. The PCL printers
(like laser printers) handle the fonts slightly differently than an
inkjet/bubblejet.

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Hm, yes there are transparent images. We have an Image in the background on
every page.
It's a jpg-image with unter 10 kb (this is what I meant with small).

Cheers,
Frank!
 
Hm, yes there are transparent images. We have an Image in the background on
every page
Click to expand...

Try removing them temporarily. See how that affects your print file size (you
can always choose the To File option in the print dialog and let PPT make a
file instead of printing - saves a few trees.
It's a jpg-image with unter 10 kb (this is what I meant with small).
Click to expand...

Because of their extreme compression, there's no direct relationship between
the size of JPG files and the size of the image they contain. To get an idea
of what the printer sees, open the JPG in an image editing program and save it
as a BMP file. The BMP is uncompressed, so it gives you a better idea of what
will probably go to the printer.

If it's substantially bigger, then try downsampling it to a more reasonable
size, say around 1500 pixels on the long dimension, assuming a 600dpi laser
printer.
 
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