The ResComputing Public Volume has some good QuickTime movies in the Art folder. You can also find good QuickTime movies on the Sumex-Aim FTP archive. First, any text should be in draw mode.
Translucent objects seem to print faster.
You might also try changing the bit-depth. Look at the title bar of your document. The number in brackets is the bit-depth, or the number of bits devoted to each pixel. If it is 8, each p ixel can be one of 256 colors. Sixteen bits gives you 65536 colors, but makes your document huge and print very slowly.