It is more likely that the printer and printer driver will cause the speed problem
than the PC specs. The 'Departemental Analysis by Extension' report is huge and
a dot matrix printer is very slow.
It will be advisable to have a printer with memory upgrade possiblities.
ALSO SEE: Can TOPAZ print to a dot matrix printer?
If you cannot upgrade the printer, try the following (keeping in mind that a dot
matrix printer will always be slow):
- Make sure your PC is up to the specification for TOPAZ.
ALSO SEE:PC requirements to run TOPAZ. - Make sure that you are using the latest version of TOPAZ. This will sort out all
known issues. Update available on the website, http://www.datatex.co.za -> downloads -> software upgrades -> topaz - Make sure you are using the latest version of the printer driver.
- If your PC has a second hard drive, create the tmptopaz folder on that drive. This
will free up some space on your system drive, which might help.
- Close TOPAZ.
- Delete the folder tmptopaz, location: 'C:\tmptopaz'.
- Edit the 'topaz.ini' in 'C:\Program Files\Datatex\Topaz'.
- Change the default entry, 'TMPTOPAZPATH=C:\tmptopaz' to point to your drive.
For example:
[GENERAL]
TMPTOPAZPATH=C:\tmptopaz
to
[GENERAL]
TMPTOPAZPATH=D:\tmptopaz - In this example your tmptopaz folder will now be created on the D drive.
Please open TOPAZ and check on the D drive for the folder tmptopaz.