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Q: How to speed up printing colored pages on my b&w LaserWriter 8500?

My LaserWriter 8500 prints PDF pages containing text highlighted in gray-scale at normal speed (a few seconds/page). If I change the highlights to web-safe colors, each page takes more than 5 minutes. (The same pattern also happens for background colors for text notes.)

But web-safe colors don't slow printing other annotation effects (lines, freehand, boxes, circles).

Also, web-safe color highlighting prints quickly on my (b&w) HL-2040 printer.

Is there anything I can do (drivers? Postcript mods?) to speed up the printing on the LaserWriter 8500 other than revert to gray-scale?

Is this an issue with Apple frameworks?

(I use Skim to annotate PDFs as, from what I can tell, highlight color is not adjustable with either Acrobat or Preview, and I want to also optimize color for on-screen presentation.)

Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 24, 2009 3:46 PM

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