[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Nick

wrote:
I've got a HP Photosmart 8450 printer and have noticed something very
odd about the size of print jobs in the print queue when printing from
Word.

If I open a word document, the very first time I print it, the job
size in the print queue is different than all subsequent times the
document is printed. It's important I get an accurate reading of the
print job size for an application I'm writing.

For example, in one document, the first time I print I get 102kb
displayed in the job size column, 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 any job size differences 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 first print job, add one
character. Then print again. And print again afterwards. Are there any
size differences in the later two jobs?

0.002cents
Robert
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