On 1 Mar, 20:32, "Robert M. Franz (RMF)"
wrote:
Hello Nick
wrote:
I've got a HP Photosmart 8450 printer and have noticed something very
odd about thesizeofprintjobs in theprintqueue when printing from
Word.
If I open a word document, the very first time Iprintit, thejob
sizein theprintqueue is different than all subsequent times the
document is printed. It's important I get an accurate reading of the
printjobsizefor an application I'm writing.
For example, in one document, the first time IprintI get 102kb
displayed in thejobsizecolumn, all other times 88.1kb. Once I shut
word down the pattern repeats itself. The behaviour is OS independent
and Word version independent.
I've tried other printers and some of them exhibit the problem, some
of them don't.
Interestingly I don't get anyjobsizedifferences printing through
Wordpad or OpenOffice Write 
I've tried changing all manner of settings and nothing seems to stop
the problem happening.
I'm going around in circles trying to get to the bottom of this.
Anyone out there got any thoughts or see this behaviour themselves and
know of a solution ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
no solution, just some thoughts: what happens when you edit anything
with the document in between. Say, after your firstprintjob, add one
character. Thenprintagain. Andprintagain afterwards. Are there anysizedifferences in the later two jobs?
0.002cents
Robert
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Hello there, thanks for replying. In answer to your question, here is
an example based on a simple word doc
(a) First time open - print - 104380 bytes
(b) Edit doc by adding one character - 90148 bytes
(c) Print again - 90148 bytes
(d) Print again - 90148 bytes
etc
The first time print is always bigger than subsequent prints, almost
as if Word is passing more information to the printer the first time a
document is printed.
As I mentioned, some printers work fine. I tried it on a Samsung laser
printer and it all worked as expected. It seems to be a combination of
Word and some printers (possibly non-laser printers, but that's just a
guess really).
regards
Nick