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Offline JVasa

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Speed up contact sheet printing
« on: July 02, 2007, 12:01:42 PM »
Is there a way to speed up the process of printing contact sheets?  The spooling seems to take way to long.

Thanks,
Jamie

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Re: Speed up contact sheet printing
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2007, 12:22:49 PM »
Jamie,

Is there a way to speed up the process of printing contact sheets?  The spooling seems to take way to long.

What OS are you running?
Do you have "Use printer scaling" on or off?

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Re: Speed up contact sheet printing
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2007, 12:35:03 PM »
I am using Vista and yes I have use printer scaling checked.

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Re: Speed up contact sheet printing
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2007, 12:38:13 PM »
Jamie,

I am using Vista and yes I have use printer scaling checked.

Try turning it off.  Full size images are sent to the printer when that checkbox is checked.  Now PM will pre-scale the images to the printed size before spooling them.  You can also use the Resolution popup to reduce the DPI which will also speed things up at the cost of (possibly) lower quality output.

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Re: Speed up contact sheet printing
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2007, 12:43:26 PM »
That helped considerably, I figured there was something simple.  Thanks