I have a Bizhub 250 and it is taking forever to print a relatively small file. I am trying to print a single page from an Excel workbook. The workbook as a whole is 3MB. When I go to print the one sheet, it spools the file to 12MB and takes about 30 minutes to print!!?? Is this normal? Can I get around this somehow? I don't want to have to wait 30 mins for a one page print job, that seems a little excessive. The issue only seems to happen with multipage Excel and PDF files. All the rest seem to work just fine.
Thanks for any and all help.
Chris
When you ask to print the page are you asking for more the one copy? If you are there is a collate check button next to the requested sets box, in the print dialog box. Make sure its not check. Collating the print means your PC sends a copy of the file for each requested copy. IE: you print one page and ask for six copies, your PC sends the file six times, one copy of the file for each print requested.
Also because your printing from a windows application IE: Excel you should be using the PCL print driver as apposed to a PostScript print driver. The time it takes to convert the file into PostScript for the printer to process it is time consuming.
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I ended up stumbling upon the problem. There was an image in the file and to see if it was maybe the culprit I tried to remove it. After several "failed" attempts to remove it I realized that there were 2400 copies of the image on each of the 7 sheets in the workbook. Once I removed all but the one the file size dropped to about 200KB and the file printed immediately. The only explanation I have for this is that they copy the sheets as templates and this copying managed to accumulate all the images.
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