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"jasee" <jasee@btinternet.com> wrote in message 
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> XP operating system. HP printers (directly connected by ip address)
> I want to send the smallest possible prints to my laser printer. I've 
> changed the resolution/quality on the printers to be the smallest 
> possible. I've tried printing to postscript (ps), pcl5e. or pcl6 printers.
> For text and a simple word document (one font). There is no difference in 
> spooler size. For a complicated word document (with images), the ps file 
> size is a lot smaller. Pcl5e and Pcl6 are the same. Its the same for pdfs. 
> For instance with ps, one file was only 8.2mbytes, however it was over 
> 30mbytes with pcl.
>
> It seems to me that it is usually preferable to use ps drivers if you want 
> to send the smallest possible file?
>
> (I'm testing to try and optimise slow terminal server printing, so 
> physical speed of printing is not important)


I think we need nore details.

If you are using terminal services, presumably this is running on a server?

What is the printer connected to?  Conventionally it would be connected to 
the server.  All the print processing takes place on the server.  Clients 
which connect to the domain controlled by the server then rely on the server 
for all the print processing.  The client sends the document to the server 
in a format private to M$ - the server then converts it to the printer 
language.

If you use terminal services, all the communication between the application 
(Word) and the printer takes place on the server.  All that terminal 
services achieves is to replicate the user's screen from the server to the 
remote client.  It is as if the user were sitting at the server and logged 
on to it.  Nothing whatever to do with printing passes over the terminal 
services connection.

I cannot see that the choice of printer language will affect terminal 
services performance.

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Graham