PS CS4 - Slow when printing multiple copies

[Auriette...@adobeforums.com]

I just installed Creative Suite 4 on Monday, so it's all new to me.

I work in a theatre and print a lot of programs and posters. If I send a print run of, say, 18 posters to the printer, Photoshop 7 generated once, then printed all the copies fairly quickly.

With CS4, it's like it's generating the image each time, so it's taking several minutes between each print. I tried saving as a pdf and going to Adobe Acrobat Reader to print and it does the same thing. Appears to work fine in Word and Excel, but of course, those are much smaller files.

I have to print 400 copies of an event program on Friday, so I am desperate to find out how to speed things up!

Thanks for any suggestions!

[Myle...@adobeforums.com]

Check, how you are actually printing the stuff. This sounds very much like the printer driver is resorting to GDI printing, where basically all rasterization is done on your local machine and each job managed manually. If it's a proper PostScript/ PDF capable driver, there may be the need to flip a switch somewhere. Also check the sending options in PS/ Acro for ASCII vs. binary encoding and such things. It's certainly just a minor difference compared to your old default settings which causes this misconduct.

Mylenium

[Auriette...@adobeforums.com]

Thanks, Mylenium. I had our IT guy look at your post, because I didn't know what some of it meant. I had tried one different driver, but IT guy found another one that has improved the situation. I may yet get everything I need for tonight printed in time!