Slow Printing in MacOS 10.2 on some layouts

[droosan]

I have an HP 2250tn connected via Ethernet.

I have a db with about 1500 records. When I print from an old PBK running os9.1 all is well. The printer pumps out the pages one after another.

On an iMac running os10.2: When I print from one specific layout the printer sits for about a minute before printing every single page. From a different layout the printer pumps out the pages normally.

So I figured that some particular object on the layout was the problem. I have been messing with deleting some objects and seeing how quickly it prints. I can't really figure it out.

And now: Each time I was trying to print, when I went to the print dialog I started getting the beach ball for a couple seconds. Just now when I went to the print dialog, the beach ball has come up permanently, FM has apparently frozen up. I don't remember this happening ever in os10.1.x before.

Anyone have similar experiences?

[harryk]

My experience with printing (FM 5.0 and 5.5) (mac OS 9.02 epson spooler in the background) is that when I start printing from FM it's reeeeaaal slooooow, but when I choose the spooler in the finder as the foreground application, things get normal.

It does not annoy me to much, but still, it's strange, as FM is the only application I have this with.

For you, try whether selecting the spooler as said above, does speed things up. Not a real solution but at least you know where the cause is to be found.

Harryk