Mail Merge spool difficulties

[John K]

I am using Pub 2003 to do a mail merge. The total number
of records is 3200. When I merge the job to the printer,
the job spools completely to the printer, however, every
80 records there seems to be lag when the spooled job is
actually sent to the print device. This merge is taking
an extraordinary amount of time to print. The OS is W2K
and I have tried with XP and on a different W2K machine.
The actual print devices I have tried printing to are
Canon and Xerox production machines to the PCL and PS
drivers on each machine. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
John

[McCabe's Minuteman]

Sounds like Pub is sending 80 records per print file. The lag is probably
rip time for each group. Not much to do.
On the Canon, depending on the job and the RIP you are using, you could use
a freeform master to print the base page and just send the merge data. That
would take little time to rip.

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[JIM_M]

The problem is probably Microsoft Office 2003 and everything involved with it.
Word 2003 is useless for Mail merges above 100 records.
Publisher breaks the print job up to 10 pages per print job, so you parobably are sending 100's of print jobs to the printer and it is crashing.

I suggest going back to Office XP.

[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

JIM_M wrote:

JIM,

This is from Ed:

You may be able to accomplish this using the Registry Fix (courtesy of
KATMA).

Open registry using regedit.exe

Go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Publisher\Printing

Create new "string value" called:
NumberOfRecordsPerBatch

Double click and set a value for your batch size (120 for example).

--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
Official Publisher MVP Site:
http://www.kvalheim.org

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

[mar...@phoenix.lbhf.sch.uk]

I had the same problem few months ago with canon s9000,
then i increased the amount of memory used by the printer
and it worked.

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