Impatient

[dancerjodi]

Dammit! Whenever I print articles from http://www.jstor.org/ it takes forever (whether its from home or work). I haven't tried it from school because I don't want to have to pay the library for the printouts.

Seriously, a 12 page document took around 10 minutes to print, yikes!

I'm concerned I won't have enough sources for my lit review for the Master's paper. I don't want to go to the library on Sunday morning but it may just come to that . . .

Comments

[slickgothgurl.livejournal.com]

are there a lot of graphics in the document or very small print (or unusual characters)? with a lot of the astronomy journals here, it can take up to 5 minutes to print one double sided page on a lazer printer. it's got to do with the fact that the printer has to process all the text and images and turn it into a postscript file before it will print.

i don't know if that helps, but just wanted to let you know we have that problem here as well.

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

I have never had a good time using JSTOR stuff...never seems to want to work for me.

You will have enough resources, its just hard to find them. I have that same feeling in the back of my head, but then today realized that I can include a bunch of books on various topics. Can't you access the databases and such online at home?

[silentq.livejournal.com]

From a quick look at the demo, they offer the options to download the files in tiff, ps or pdf format. Can you try the same page in each of those to see which is faster? My guess would be PDF, but your printer(s) may be optimised for different file formats.
Also, try downloading them and printing instead of printing from the site, and then setting your print options: look for an economy/normal versus high quality setting and b&w versus greyscale if you just need to be able to read it rather than have it be super high quality.

[frogmajick.livejournal.com]

I've always had better luck cutting and pasting into a word document and printing like that. I lose pictures and such tho, so that may not be an option for you.