Go into the "Advanced" settings in the Adobe print protocol, and put a check in the "Print as Image" box. If you're using postscript, most of the time the drivers process each "Layer" of the PDF separately, causing it to take forever to print. Flatten it out to one layer with the Print as Image box, and that should speed things way up.
+1 on the resizing of the document BEFORE printing it.
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