HP Designjet 110+ Spooling

[Tsquared]

Very new to VW, and first post, so apologies if this has been covered. I'm suffering ridiculously long spooling when printing even relatively simple drawings, cancelled after 20 minutes today waiting for 2 prints. Exporting to PDF and printing from there is only slightly quicker. Don't have the problem with Acad, though the file sizes are a lot smaller. Printer driver? VW tweak?

VW Architect+Renderworks12.5,WinXP,Pentium4 2.8Ghz,1Gig Ram

[Guest]

What driver version do you have installed?

How large is the VW file?

Does the file have a lot of patterns/hatches/images in it?

[Tsquared]

Driver - Designjet 110plus v6.03

File size - 4.2Mb

To be used for 2D plans and elvations only. Elevations manually produced, horizontal line hatching to represent brickwork, roof tile hatching, gradient fill to glass, eight 2D figures, two vehicles.

[Guest]

6.06 is the latest version driver. You may want to update to the newer version and see what happens.

Do you have "Print patterns at on-screen resolution" turned on?

[Tsquared]

Many thanks Katie, I've updated the driver and I'm amazed by the difference, the same drawing now starts to print in a matter of seconds and rather than minutes.