why does powerpoint file increase in size while printing

[Brada]

A powerpoint file which is 165 KB on the harddrive, increrase it's size to
3,3 MB when printing in color. Why?

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

This seems strange but it is sort of normal. It has to spool to the printer
and this seems to take up some memory more than expected. Are you just
curious or are you having some sort of memory problem with this increase in
size?

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.powerpointworkbench.com

Australia

 

[Brada Bradic]

Hello,

First, thank You for Your answer. The second, we really have a problem with
it. Users in my company creates powerpoint presentations and very often they
print them to the network printers. I've tested one presenation which has 1,5
MB on harddrive, and it has growen to 130MB when printing on the printer
connected to the local port (during the printing, I open printer's window and
in column size I can see how the amouynt of bytes grows and grows up to 130
MB). The same things happens even if I create a simple presentation with few
pictures - size on hard drive 129 KB but while printing 1,1 MB (ten times
bigger). You can imagine how long time it takes when such presentations need
to be printed over the network.

Kind regards

Brada