photo printing issues

[Guest]

I placed four pix in a Word document to make it convenient to print them onto glossy paper. The file size for the document was about 8 mg, but when I sent it to the printer it somehow grew to over 45 megs and then the printer started acting weird. It would print the page -- slowly -- and I sent a second to print, but it never did because it was still showing the previous file as being in the process of deleting (after I told the printer to cancel that job since it had already been accomplished). I had to reboot in order to print the second page. Any clues as to why the file size indicated that it was growing before my eyes and then tripping up the printer?

 

[Mary Sauer]

What version Word? What printer?
WD2000: Unexpected Behavior When You Print a Document Containing Graphics
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;220570&Product=wrd20

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I placed four pix in a Word document to make it convenient to print them onto

glossy paper. The file size for the document was about 8 mg, but when I sent it to
the printer it somehow grew to over 45 megs and then the printer started acting
weird. It would print the page -- slowly -- and I sent a second to print, but it
never did because it was still showing the previous file as being in the process of
deleting (after I told the printer to cancel that job since it had already been
accomplished). I had to reboot in order to print the second page. Any clues as to
why the file size indicated that it was growing before my eyes and then tripping up
the printer?

 

[Guest]

I'm using Word 2000 and a new Lexmark X1150 PrinTrio printer. The issue related to the printed document remaining in queue with the notation "deleting" and therefore not letting the second document move up to begin printing was replicated using files without graphics. The progress window that Lexmark tosses up on the screen only gets to 99% even though the document is printed fully. I'm going to reinstall the printer software and see what that does

I still am baffled why an 8meg file would bloom to 5x that size when sent to the printer

----- Mary Sauer wrote: ----

What version Word? What printer
WD2000: Unexpected Behavior When You Print a Document Containing Graphic
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;220570&Product=wrd2

--
Mary Sauer MS MV
http://office.microsoft.com
http://www.mvps.org/msauer
news://msnews.microsoft.co

I placed four pix in a Word document to make it convenient to print them ont

glossy paper. The file size for the document was about 8 mg, but when I sent it t
the printer it somehow grew to over 45 megs and then the printer started actin
weird. It would print the page -- slowly -- and I sent a second to print, but i
never did because it was still showing the previous file as being in the process o
deleting (after I told the printer to cancel that job since it had already bee
accomplished). I had to reboot in order to print the second page. Any clues as t
why the file size indicated that it was growing before my eyes and then tripping u
the printer

 

[Chuck]

The short answer- Lower the printing resolution, and the picture resolution
before it is placed in the document.

Long answer
Somewhere in the printing process, several things occur that seem to eat
storage space. First, the application output is spooled. As it gets sent tot
he driver, the driver may also spool the output file. Then, the file gets
converted to a printer specific format. If color photographic quality and
high resolution printing is called for, the "printer ready" file can get
quite large. A conversion also takes place within the printer driver,
usually RGB to CMYK. To add insult to injury, a screen pixel is not a
printer dot. The printing process usually causes more than three dots to be
printed to make up a spot of a specific color and intensity that more or
less coresponds to the one pixel.

The spool status monitor is often out of sync with the actual job process.
This generally means that the delete job function works erratically when the
document is either in the process of being printed, or has just completed
printing. A small part of the problem is due to hardware buffering inside
the printer. The rest can usually be pinned on the printer driver.

I'm using Word 2000 and a new Lexmark X1150 PrinTrio printer. The issue

related to the printed document remaining in queue with the notation
"deleting" and therefore not letting the second document move up to begin
printing was replicated using files without graphics. The progress window
that Lexmark tosses up on the screen only gets to 99% even though the
document is printed fully. I'm going to reinstall the printer software and
see what that does.