I know, most people try and get a title company to print their flyers. But I print my own. A long time ago I invested in a big Rich color printer, the toner is cheap, and it prints well.
Today I was trying to print a bunch of open house flyers, and the thing was just taking forever! I was printing from Photoshop. So then I decided to try and find a faster way to print them.
The printer is pdf native, so I tried printing after saving as pdf. And the printer is hooked to the network with ethernet, so it shouldn't be a file size issue... hmmm....
So then I noticed that the pdf was 5 meg, not unreasonable for a full page color flyer (that was taking upwards of 3 minutes per page).
Then I got an idea. I loaded the pdf into Adobe Acrobat and chose "reduce file size", and the file went from 5 meg to 164k. When I printed the smaller pdf, it popped out in about 10 seconds! What a difference!
So here's my faster printing tip: If the file you are trying to print is smaller, it might print lots faster. For sure if it is a pdf, use Acrobat (not acrobat reader, sorry) to reduce the file size. If your printer is a native pdf printer, it will fly!
Patrick Harvey
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