I assumed (yes I know <g>) that all Windows had some kind of print spooler that would spool a print job to disk or memory and then send it to the printer in the background.
I have seen the slow printing under labview several times (version 6.x) with NT-4 and Win 98. Am I doing something wrong in my programming? My strategy is to check the Automatically print panel every time vi completes execution box and then run the vi.
I want to be lazy and not have to change a lot of code. It seems that with all that NI does to make programming easy, they would have handled this in some way. If that is not an option then I will try the suggestion from Dan.
Frank
Original message:
I have a system with Labview 6.0 on NT-4 that prints a 1 page report. This is done by selecting Automatically print panel every time vi completes execution. This vi takes about 30 seconds to complete, probably due to a slow connection to the network printer. If the Automaticaly print panel checkbox is not checked the vi runs in about a second so it seems that the printing is the problem. Has anyone else seen this slow printing? Is there any way to have labview spool to a file and then print the file or some other way to speed up printing.
I am trying to avoid allowing the print routines to run in a different thread because that would require extensive rewriting.
Thanks
