I don't work for MS. But my guess is that there were (at least) two different
groups that developed the print routines.

One chose one technique. The other didn't.

You may want to look at the printer. Some printers can be set to print multiple
copies (toggling some setting on the printer??).

Alex Clark wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> (Running Office 2003 on XP Pro workstations, SBS 2003 server, Active
> Directory domain).
>
> I've noticed that if you tell Excel to print multiple copies of a workbook,
> it sends the same document to the printer multiple times - i.e., for 3
> copies of "MyWorkbook1.xls", I get 3 entries in the print queue for that
> same document.
>
> If I do the same in MS Word, it just sends the document once with a copy
> count of 3. This makes printing Excel documents frustratingly slow, as the
> printer goes through initialisation routines each time a new document is
> sent to it.
>
> Why did MS do it this way? Is it a bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex Clark

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Dave Peterson