crystal and slow print performance

Mario Schulz

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Oct 31, 2001, 1:25:35 PM10/31/01

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hi !

i have a problem with slow print performance in network... the pos-printer
takes 22 seconds to print one receipt... this is to much ! do you have any
idea how can i improve the performance ? i use cr7.0 and Vo25b3....

start print job......22 sec.... print first line....... ending the print
job...

thanks !

mario

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Jamal

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Oct 31, 2001, 4:40:50 PM10/31/01

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Is Norton Anti-Virus installed?

Jamal

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Stephen Quinn

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Oct 31, 2001, 6:13:44 PM10/31/01

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Mario

Try changing from Crystal Reports to something without the overhead.
Try the PrintQuick{} class from VO25Lib

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Mario Schulz

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Nov 1, 2001, 3:37:54 AM11/1/01

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hi !

this cannot be the solution... i will give my costumer the chance to create
there own formulars... without change the programm...

pritnquick{} allready be used in my app to print partlabels ... but the
information on those labels are static...

thanks !

mario

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Mario Schulz

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Nov 1, 2001, 3:36:04 AM11/1/01

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hi !

yes it is ? why ???

bye,
mario

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Marc Verkade

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Nov 1, 2001, 5:41:15 AM11/1/01

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Mario,
Do you mean that the printer is not giving the process back to your program?
Is the setting 'Print direct to printer' off in the printer 'Advanced'
settings tab?

You also could speed some things up if you check if the right indexes are
present in your DBF's.
It is important that you index the linked fields of the different servers in
crystal.
Have you set crystal to 'Use indexes to increase speed'.

Personally I would suggest that you turn to Crystal 8.5. Some more settings
are present that will increase the speed. When I print an invoice from my
program with crystal (12 tables) it takes about 3 seconds.... And the
invoice is a heavy report!

Regards, Marc

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Mario Schulz

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Nov 1, 2001, 8:32:19 AM11/1/01

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hi !

> Mario,
> Do you mean that the printer is not giving the process back to your
program?

yes !!

> Is the setting 'Print direct to printer' off in the printer 'Advanced'
> settings tab?

i will check this...do you set it "spooling data" ?

>
> You also could speed some things up if you check if the right indexes are
> present in your DBF's.

i have only 3 tables !!
the fields are indexed..

> It is important that you index the linked fields of the different servers
in
> crystal.
> Have you set crystal to 'Use indexes to increase speed'.

yes...

>
> Personally I would suggest that you turn to Crystal 8.5. Some more
settings
> are present that will increase the speed. When I print an invoice from my
> program with crystal (12 tables) it takes about 3 seconds.... And the
> invoice is a heavy report!

8.5 ?? ok, i will check this too...

thanks for help !

bye,
mario

Jamal

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Nov 1, 2001, 11:07:26 AM11/1/01

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Because a customer of mine had slow printing and when he disabled the Norton
anti-virus he was back to speed.
Also some printer run faster when EMF is the default printer spool setting.

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Marc Verkade

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Nov 1, 2001, 11:33:21 AM11/1/01

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Mario,

If the printer is not giving the process back to your program, the printer
is probably set to 'directly print to the printer'. You should set this to
'Queue/Spool print processes'. You can use EMF format for the spool format,
but it is not totally garanteed that the prints will look the same on the
printer as on your preview/screen because of some internal processing from
EMF to RAW when actually sending data to the printer. Raw format will
garantee that the print will be OK, but will be a little slower giving the
process back to your app than spooling to EMF.

Regards, Marc

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