Hi Dawn (
[email protected]),
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:
|| Ever since I switched to Pub 2002, my printing takes much longer to
|| complete. In comparison, when I used Pub 97 to create a 12 page
|| calendar with a photo for each month, I could print the whole thing
|| in about 20 minutes on my color laser printer. Now with Pub 2002, I
|| start out with a 12 MB file and it grows to 160MB causing the same
|| calendar to take up to 2 hours to print. Print a sheet of 30 address
|| labels with a 1/2" photo on them? Forget it. What am I doing wrong?
Publisher 2002 has actually reduced file sizes. So this sounds like a
printer driver issue:
Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 and older are critical about printer
drivers. Usually upgrading (or downgrading in some cases) will fix
the problems you are encountering.
If you have not already done so, you would want to visit the
manufacturers website of your printer to download and install the
latest printer driver that is available. It's important to note that
the CD-Rom that came with your printer will most likely NOT have the
most recent driver for your printer.
Popular Printer Driver Sites:
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Canon
http://www.usa.canon.com/html/cprSupportDetail.jsp?minisite=10000&a=b&navfrom=DrivD
HP
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/eng/support.html
Lexmark
http://www.lexmark.com/US/support/drivers/index.html
Epson
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/index.jsp
and visit the downloads/drivers section
Brother
http://www.brother.com/E-ftp/info/index.html
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Search for the printer driver that represents the make and model that you
are using and download that driver. I would make sure you select "Save"
when prompted for download, not "Run". Typically many save to My Documents.
Do not install or run the setup.
Go to Start > Settings > Printers and right click on your current printer
and choose delete from the menu that appears. If prompted to remove all
files, choose yes. Then restart your computer.
Once your computer restarts, go to the folder where your new printer driver
was downloaded and double click the file to extract the printer driver.
This should prompt you through the setup routine for the new driver. If
your computer "detects new hardware" upon restart, it's ok to hit cancel
on that dialog. Go ahead and continue your setup routine of your newly
downloaded printer driver.
If the file that you downloaded is not an executable, but only a file
that is *.inf, then you will need to follow these steps:
1. Go to Start >Settings > Printers
2. Choose "Add Printer"
3. Choose Next
4. Select "Local Printer" then click Next
5. At the next dialog box choose "Have Disk"
6. Browse to the location of your newly downloaded *.inf file
7. Follow the remaining prompts (you may have to insert your Windows CD)
8. I would recommend restarting your computer at this point.
Now try a new print from Publisher.
This should fix your troubles. If not, either contact your printer
manufacturer directly and inform them of the problem you have experienced.
They might request that you try an older printer driver.
Post back if you have any further questions. Feel free to visit my website
at
http://www.mvps.org/publisher for some great information.
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
Official Publisher MVP Site:
http://www.kvalheim.org
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
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