Color pages take 45 mins and longer to print on laser

[Michael]

Hi all,

My two page document takes roughly 45 minutes and sometimes longer to print
in colour, using Publisher 2003. When I print is black & white prints
instantly,

Bit more info, did document at home with an external mysql db, I don't have
a printer that can handle this type of job. So I've "printed" the job as an
adobe PDF and taken it into my office to print, and same problem when try to
print takes 45 mins.

it's doing an automated mail-merge letter, that grabs name address, ... from
an external MySql DB and then adds to a letter. Problem not with data just
the printing, printer just sits there "processing data", the file size
displayed in properties is 227KB for the 2 pages. Same result if I try and
print just 1 page or 2 or all 348 pages.

So I thought must be resolution, tried 1200dpi , 600, 300 and 150dpi. all
same problem, so thought must be PDF so I tried using the "Microsoft Office
Document Image Writer", then tried to print them and same problem. Arghh

Anyone have any idea why a simple 2 page document, 2" colour header at start
of first page and a half-inch grey boarder around the rest of 1st page and
all of the 2nd, takes so long to print. What am I doing wrong? Or have any
suggestions how I can print these without having to wait for 5 days for them
to print

thanks all

Michael


ps:
1) I tried taking the file into the office and printing directly to
printer, but firewall blocking port 3306 so I can connect out to complete
the mail-merge, so all I have is a blank master, hence why I am trying to
save to file and then print elsewhere.

2) I've also tried to output the mail-merge into a new publication, but
when I do the text gets moved around, some moved out of visible area and the
formatting (paragraphs, tabs) is removed, so I cant use it. anyone's help
will be greatly appreciated, thanks again

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you have gradients? What model is your printer? Have you gone to the
manufacturer's web site and looked around for an updated driver. Can you not turn off
the firewall? Do you have Norton?

 

[Michael]

yes, there are 2 images on page, the header and a U shaped boarder,
left-bottom-right, all sides of the boarder have graidents. A grey to white
fade.
Printer: Xerox c410
No cant turn firewall off.
Yes, most recent drivers.
Prints other full page A3 in 5 mins compared to my print of 45min in A4. So
will my problem be the gradients?

thanks for the help

Michael