This question pops up every month or so.

Here's enough of the answer from one of Mike Chaney's articles.

I'll see if I can paste the address of the whole article here too.
In the meantime:

By far, the most common symptom of problems related to checking the "Enable Advanced Printing Features" option is missing print data.  If this option is checked and you start to get prints that are only partially printed, pages that are missing, hard drive space errors, or other issues that can't be tracked down to other areas, you may wish to uncheck "Enable Advanced Printing Features".  If the problem disappears, you'll know to leave that box unchecked in your printer properties.

Again, on most systems, checking "Enable Advanced Printing Features" will result in faster processing.  While that won't speed up your printer, it will definitely result in your printing software being able to process the job faster and that means returning control to you faster so that you can do more work while the printer is printing.  If you don't want to get into the details of changing these settings in Windows or you are having trouble remembering which option has which benefits, I've designed my recently released Qimage 2007 photo printing software to be able to print either way.  Simply use "Edit", "Preferences", "Printing Options" and you can set the spool type to either the default "EMF - Faster printing" or "Raw - Large prints".  Qimage will make sure that other corresponding options such as the spool data type are set optimally and that "Enable Advanced Printing Features" is checked/unchecked in your printer's properties based on your selection.

 

Mike Chaney

http://ddisoftware.com/tech/articles/august-2006-enable-advanced-printing-features/


By the way, you didn't mention what printer it was,. Some make you go into Printers and Devices and set properties to an UNCHECKRD "enable features"

ok i have got around it by saving as a pdf and printing, the pdf was 162mb instead of the print which was 13mb, yet the pdf printed fine.

Any ideas what to try? 

Hi G,

I've had similar problems with various odd printers over the years. A recent one, using a Dell laser, was solved by going into the ms print spooler, and altering the memory capacity setting to 1024MB, from 256MB iirc. Before that, prints were OK from all printing software that I had, except qimage, now it works fine with everything. This was a PCL6 print driver, which, afaik, is from hp origins.

Best wishes,

Ray