[THIN] Re: Printing PDF's get too big

I'm using CutePDF in Citrix to generate PDF files and the version you purchase 
has an option to set the output quality as a global setting. I've set it to be 
pretty low quality but looks good and I generally don't get large PDFs. 

On our WAN I've prioritized our ICA traffic and am using just normal network 
printers so the printer traffic is outside the ICA channel. I find that 
although we might download a large PDF and it might be a little slow printing 
it doesn't slow the Citrix session down at all. 

As far as actually answering your question, I think the spool size is greatly 
affected by the printer driver and I suspect that PCL5e would be the best 
choice and generic drive if possible. I've had most of these types of issues 
with color printers and resolved by trying different generic drivers until one 
works.

Matthew Shrewsbury
Network Manager
Coscan Homes, LLC 

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Steve Parr
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:09 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Printing PDF's get too big

If it is just staright-thru printing ie. no special features try 'HP LaserJet 
4' for a much smaller sool file than the drivers you mention. Will be much 
faster printing as well. 
Acrobat reader initself should not be an issue, if your using Adobe writers tho 
better to user something such as PDF995 whih is more TS\Citrix friendly however 
that may still not help with reducing the spool file size.

-----Original Message-----
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Jeremy Saunders
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:14 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Printing PDF's get too big

Hi All,

Got a client running PS4 on Win2K3 SP1, with all patches. Unfortunately, due to 
their main line of business app not supporting EMF printing, we are unable to 
use the UPD. We are finding that their PDF print jobs get very large...much 
larger than the original PDF. Being a WAN environment, we have set a policy for 
printer bandwidth to 30k. May seem small, but that's all we can afford to allow 
per session. So when printing PDF's, many of them create large spool jobs and 
take a long time to print. We have tried PCL5e,
PCL6 and PS drivers, all with similar results. Does anyone have any advice on 
how we can cut the size of these print jobs? Would moving away from Acrobat 
Reader help?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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