Re: Major printing problem

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"Dawgma" <Dawgma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I just finished the development of a massive presentation that consists of
about 150 slides. The presentation cannot be broken down into smaller
presentations, it needs to remain as one single PowerPoint file. I've
used
high quality PNG graphics throughout the presentation and the final
product
is 150 slides and 32MB. The largest PNG graphic is about 1.5MB and most
of
the other graphics are between 50-500KB. I've also used some JPGs but
mostly
PNGs because they look so much better when projected on a screen 8 feet
across.

During the development of the presentation we had been printing copies of
the presentation. The earlier print jobs were fine... they were processed
by
the printer at the same speed as any other kind of document and the
printer
would spit out pages at 6ppm. There was no sign of any printing issues
during earlier versions of the presentation (~20MB). But it has been a
few
weeks since we did our last print and the project has since been
completed.
Now when we try to print it takes FOREVER. The printer takes several
minutes
just to print a single page of handouts. To print the entire presentation
would literally take ALL DAY.

This is a serious problem because the presentation is the master sales
presentation for a company that I work for. If they are unable to easily
produce handouts to their clients....... they will be upset.

I need some help to figure out a solution to print this presentation.
Perhaps there is a way to compress it before printing? Or convert it to
another type of document when handouts are needed? What do you suppose
caused the printer to suddenly take forever to print the presentation? I
know it is a large presentaiton.. but I did not think 32MB was THAT big...
I've seen bigger PowerPoint files that print just fine.

Any ideas... anyone?

art.


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