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Did you know that if your logging levels are set too high you can be severely impacting your printing performance? Highly detailed logging levels are routinely set on development and even testing systems, and by default, but are usually not needed on production machines. Regardless, when production machines are configured they are usually left at default settings and/or their settings are transported from development or test.

If your logging levels are turned all the way up, you can get insane improvements in speed with very little effort and only a teensy amount of risk. So what are you waiting for?

There is, in general, only one situation where you need to turn up your logging level: When you are counting pages to print “Page 1 of 10″, “2 of 10″ and so forth. Your first printing pass on one of these needs to have logging turned up enough to catch the trace statements that record the numbers, so follow my instructions carefully if you need this. (There are other uses, but I’m not going into all of them now.)

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