Printing Issues for Electronic Reserve
Printing electronic reserve
material can be slow under certain conditions.
Factors in the speed of printing:
- Your network connection. Printing from a
LocalTalk or Ethernet connection is faster than a dialup
connection. Expect faster print times if you are working from a
workstation in the library or at a networked computer on campus.
Printing from a dialup connection is often extremely slow.
- The type of printer you are using will have an
impact on print job times. Deskjets, Deskwriters and Bubblejet
printers are slower than laser printers.
- The speed of the computer you are using plays
a role in printing times. A computer that successfully handles
Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer should be appropriate for
printing electronic reserve files.
- If you are accessing from a dial-up connection, consider
downloading your material to a disk or hard drive.
Please note: Your connection can be cut when
downloading a large file over a modem. If this occurs, you must
start over.
Practical examples of print times under various
conditions:
The networked LaserJet printer in Eckhart produced an 11 page
electronic reserve text document in 3 minutes. The same document
took 10 minutes to print on a BubbleJet printer and 40 minutes to
print through a dialup connection.