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print job size
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. |
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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 -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word |http://www.masteringword.eu/ 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 |
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Hello Nick
wrote: [..] 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). hmm, not much to add to here then. And I don't really know whether another of the Newsgroups in the microsoft.public.word. hierarchy is better suited for that sort of question (maybe .printingfonts?). To find out, you'll probably have to discuss this with the printer driver manufacturer. When all is said and done, the resolution might as well be that Word or the OS is saying "hi" to the printer ... :-) 0.002cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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