Sheet Set Printing Slow

[rayford.henderson]

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing extremely slow printing from the Sheet Set Manager? i have noticed several of my projects printing extremely slow and for no apparent reason. Currently printing just (2) 22x34 layouts from the same drawing with PDF background and so far they still have not printed and its been over an hour. Other sets have had at least one sheet with geo PDF from USGS as background and they print slow too but not this slow.

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Do you have background publishing turned on? Turn it off.
Otherwise there is not enough information to help you speed things up, what can slow the process are too numerous to count without access to your files.

[leothebuilder]

If you have PDF's attached that is likely the cause for slow printing.

What are you printing to?  Hardcopy ?  Or PDF ?  Or DWF ?

If you only have two sheets it is hardly worthwhile using SSM.

Are you using Page Setup Manager?

Try printing the individual sheets and see if that is faster.

[neaton]

I had this happen a few days ago and auditing the file found some corrupted elements. It printed normally after auditing.

Nancy

[rayford.henderson]

Turning off background printing seemed to help speed things up, but this seems to be a poor fix for the problem seeing we have background printing for a reason (i.e. - to print in the background and continue working), lol. The two sheets were part of a larger set, so the Sheet Set manager was necessary instead of printing individually. Should be able to simply choose one, or as many as needed, print in background, and continue working - all with the speed of AutoCAD versions in the past (perfect world scenario). Thanks all, and pendean!