Re: FLASH: Flash Player Printing

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 01:45 AM 1/7/00 , you wrote:


>My initial excitement at what seemed like another brilliant idea from

>MACR soon dampened as I tried to print two examples from their site

>(Macromedia's and HP's banner ads ). Working online they seemed to crash

>the system (Win '98/IE 4.7.2/Flash Plug-in 4.0.25), but in hind-sight

>they may just have been running reeeeeally slooooowly. Downloading the

>SDK and printing locally (HP Laserjet 8000 PS) from the example did work

>- but at about 10 mins. per page!!!

>

>Is this normal? If so, it's a great idea but totally impractical - can

>we expect an improvement soon?



Hi Jeff,


My old HP4P printer could not handle Macromedia's samples until I changed 

my printer properties to set Spool Data Format to Raw and changed graphics 

mode to Use Raster Graphics. Before I did this, I got print overruns and 

the pages that did print were terribly messed up. After changing the setup, 

the sample pages from MM took a very long time to print but looked pretty 

good. I then designed a simpler print-from-Flash piece (a simple graphic 

and a few lines of text) and it printed much faster and without problems. I 

haven't tested if just one or both of the printer setting changes were 

necessary.


I agree that if average users have to wait 10 minutes for a page to print, 

it's not practical. And I wouldn't want to have to deliver a warning "Note: 

this page will take a LONG time to print."

Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

Our latest Flash job is on display at <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/rickfrnd>

See our Flash portfolio at <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>

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