How to cut printing time of some PDF files

[Sbarro]

I have a problem with printing some PDF files.
I get f.e. 50kB file and 40 sek of printing and other 50kB file with almost instant printing.
What is the difference and how to cut this time ?

[unisys12]

PDF files are slow to print to certain PCL printers (Acrobat 7 on Windows)

[konisolver]

I would recommend getting acrobat. Once you get Acrobat you can change the settings for distiller to change the values of creating pdf's. I have shown customers how to create and make pdf's correctly to reduce file size without loosing quality. Many times the pdf's are distilled at 600 dpi for plain text when you can change the resolution to 200 or 300 if logos are involve. Minor changes can make pdf's print faster.

[fausto1981]

does your machine have the Postscript option installed. that will speed the process, that way nothing needs to be converted.

you can also try to remove some of the backgrounds on the file. that will make it smaller.

[infibus]

the windows standard tcpip port is slow. turn on unix printing services then print through a lpr port the que name is lp. much faster.
as said before the postscript option would work better but expensive.

[rthonpm]

If the documents are black and white, or you can acceptably print them as such, try lowering the dpi in your print driver to 300 as opposed to the usual 600. This almost always speeds them right through the print queue.

[Sbarro]

Thank you all.