Printing Issues for Electronic Reserve

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.