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How Long Will I Have to Wait For My Job to Print?

The average academic print job is six pages long. The Release Station printers print 45 pages a minute. That averages out to be about eight seconds to print an average job.

However, large graphics jobs (PDF files and PowerPoint documents, for instance) require intensive processing by the printer. This means that a single page of a graphics-intensive job may take several minutes to process (blinking green light on the printer) before the page actually prints. For these types of jobs:

  • You should release only one job at a time (so no job is still printing if you find you need to leave).
  • You should divide the job into smaller jobs by printing a few pages at a time until you have printed the entire document.

03/14/08

 

 

Last Updated: 3/26/08