Hi all, I have a question regarding Windows 2000 printing. 1. Sent out a PowerPoint 2000 print job to an HP DeskJet 2000C printer. (Size of PowerPoint file ia about 5MB) 2. On Desktop, select Start->Settings->Printers. 3. In Printers window, double click the printer icon. 4. A window appears with several columns, e.g. Document Name, Status, Owner, Pages, Size, etc. My questions is the Size columns shows 136MB even though my original file size is about 5MB. It takes a very long time for the file to be printed. What is causing this big size? Is there anything I can do to reduce this so the file can be printed faster? Regards, -JM

what u can do is. just print half of the document and the the other half. This is done inside powerpoint doc's, setting up the printer. you can choose how many slides must be printed. why is this slide show so big? does it have 500 slides?

The Printer codes/drivers or the application formating could easily be expanding the physical file to many times its size by the time it hits the printer . Couple of diagnostics: - 1) In notepad create a 1-word file and print to printer - review the printqueue size as a baseline for a simple file. 2) In Powerpoint take the option to print each page at a time to review each printqueue size - this might identify a particular format/image overhead per each page. 3) you can mess about with it then to see if simplyfying it reduces the printqueue size. Sometimes a simple change in fonts used across the pages radically reduces the size.