Increase Printing Speed
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I developed a system to print our companies invoices. Now, I am trying to find ways to optimize the system. One of the biggest things is how long it takes to print. When a bill is printed, it also prints all the paperwork stored as tiff images that go with that bill. These images really seem to take a long time to print. I tried converting them to a smaller format to hopefully speed up spooling time. Funny enough, it took longer to print a 159KB gif file than a 1344KB tiff file. My question is, does anybody know of a way to decrease the amount of time it takes to print these images? Thanks.
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I developed a system to print our companies invoices. Now, I am trying to find ways to optimize the system. One of the biggest things is how long it takes to print. When a bill is printed, it also prints all the paperwork stored as tiff images that go with that bill. These images really seem to take a long time to print. I tried converting them to a smaller format to hopefully speed up spooling time. Funny enough, it took longer to print a 159KB gif file than a 1344KB tiff file. My question is, does anybody know of a way to decrease the amount of time it takes to print these images? Thanks.
I think it really depends on the capabilities of your printer. In which case short of writing your own device driver there isn't anything you can do.
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I think it really depends on the capabilities of your printer. In which case short of writing your own device driver there isn't anything you can do.
But can anybody explain why it takes longer to print a 159KB gif image than it does to print a 1344KB tiff image?
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I developed a system to print our companies invoices. Now, I am trying to find ways to optimize the system. One of the biggest things is how long it takes to print. When a bill is printed, it also prints all the paperwork stored as tiff images that go with that bill. These images really seem to take a long time to print. I tried converting them to a smaller format to hopefully speed up spooling time. Funny enough, it took longer to print a 159KB gif file than a 1344KB tiff file. My question is, does anybody know of a way to decrease the amount of time it takes to print these images? Thanks.
.NET sends _all_ data to a printer using Raster images. This means if you only send plain taxt to a printer, it still converts it into a raster image. If you communicate with the printer via the Serial port it takes quite a while. If you only want to send text you can develop a component in VB (VS 6.0) that sends plain text to a printer and use this in .NET. can't help with the image though...