OS X slow to print web pages?

[Robin Burns]

David Anderson wrote:

>
> I'm running OS 10.2 on an XLR8 500mHz G3 upgraded PowerMac 8500
> connected via Ethernet to my trusty workhorse LaserWriter Pro 630
> printer.
>
> In general, I find that Word documents seem to print faster under OS X
> than under OS 9, but the big exception is web pages.

I'm still running 10.1.5, but I've noticed that when printing from a web
page (IE, OmniWeb, Opera, whatever), the system generates an enormous
amount of Postscript output to the printer. Probably something on the order
of 80MB or more even for simple pages.

Even the Google homepage, which is about as simple as they come these days,
takes 2-3 minutes to print on my system (867MHz G4 connected to HP LJ5M
printer via 100Mb Ethernet).

[David Anderson]

> Doesn't have anything to do with OS X. The problem is Safari. I keep
> Internet Exploiter around just to print web pages. This is MY one big
> knock on Safari.

Hi,

You're quite right--thanks for the tip. I tried printing the same map
page with Explorer, and it printed in a reasonable amount of time.

David

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