Print Widget & custom layouts

Wondering if anyone has had problems with custom layout printing performance from the Flex Viewer. I have created a custom layout to use in the print widget. When I use it to generate a print page, it takes between 1 minute and 1.5 minutes to create the pdf. It did not do this at the beginning when I began creating the layout, it seemed that the more complicated I made the print layout in ArcMap, the worse the performance became when testing it.

Anyone have a solution to this problem?

Thanks!

Darryl