Print photos and text very slow spooling

[vbginner]

Hi guys,
I'm making a program that will print jpeg's.
The way i have it is I have lots of forms with buttons and when you click a button it prints the photo and a databound label with a line of text.
The problem is that i want the user to be able to click one and then click another button right after, to print another one, but as soon as i click one, the program freezes until the photo starts printing so the user cant click to print another one right away.
Each picture is around 4 mb.
Is there away to make it go faster?
Thanks!

P.S. The pictures i'm printing are from a pdf file with text and images in it that were converted to jpg. Each page is another jpg. Is it possible to print directly from the pdf and would it be faster since the words are 'text' and not a 'photo'?


Any Help Is greatly appreciated!

[GrimmReaper]

Stupid suggestion. I'd load all the images etc. into memory first, then print them

[vbginner]

Thanks for the suggestion, but that would'nt do me any good as i have around 300 photos.
Any other help?

[Merrion]

Use a BackgroundWorker to run the print process asynchronously..

[vbginner]

How do i do that?
Can you please give me an example in code?
Thanks!

[sapator]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...undworker.aspx