Reports printing slower from a PC

[John.]

Hello,

We have a mixed pc/mac environment and have noticed that when printing a report, it takes significantly longer to print a report from a PC than it does the mac.

This is something that's repeatable and it doesn't matter what report it is.

Has anybody else run across this?

Thanks,

John

[Vaughan]

Probably the different printer drivers. Are the Macs postscript and the PCs using PCL?

[John.]

I should rephrase that a bit. It seems to take longer to do the report processing to get to preview mode on a PC than on a mac. I just ran a report on my mac laptop and the report took 4:40 to run. Ran the report through Parallels on my machine and it took 5:48 to run the same report.

Thanks,

John

[Vaughan]

"Ran the report through Parallels on my machine and it took 5:48 to run the same report."

You know, teeny details like this are actually quite important to the diagnosis of the problem.

What's the difference when the report is tested on a non-software emulation of a cpu?

I'm impressed the report ran so fast in parallels. Hands up those old enough to remember VirtualPC on the PowerPC processors, or SoftPC on the 68K processors before that... :)