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Printing a 6-page newsletter takes up to a half hour. I am printing on an HP Laser Printer (2300), and I have exported the newsletter to a .pdf. I have tried reducing the size but don't want to mess up image resolution. BTW: all the images have been dragged in from "Media" using iPhoto. They aren't particularly large photos, but the newsletter is a 10.3 Mb file. Is there a way to reduce them as I bring them in...or do I have to put them in Photoshop to reduce them first? Is there anything else that would slow it down?

When you import a picture into Pages via Media, you are bringing in the picture at the same resolution and size that it was imported into iPhoto. So if the picture was taken with your 10 megapixel camera and unedited, that's quite a large picture. When you resize and crop that picture in Pages, the physical size of the picture is unchanged and when you print it all those pixels are sent to the printer, even the ones that aren't needed by the printer.
In short, you should always resize your photos in graphic editing program and reset their resolution to one that makes sense for the final product. In the case of your HP 2600, you probably won't notice any difference in the quality of your print if you reduce the resolution of the photos to 150 dpi.

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