Digital BW, The Print

Frank and others,

I tried printing from my laptop and the result was the same as with 
my desktop. The 2200 printer seems to get tired half way throught 
the 8X10 print and finally almost stops. So it seems that the 
problem is in the printer rather than the computer. Any ideas short 
of sending it to be serviced? Any secrets on cleaning that may help?

Les

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Frank Kolwicz 
<kolwicz@...> wrote:
>
> Les,
> 
> If your print file sizes are anywhere near 100Meg, 2 Gig 
(contiguous?) 
> free disk space may simply not be enough and, if you are printing 
from 
> Photoshop, your computer may be using your primary drive for 
Photoshop's 
> "Scratch Disk" which, ideally, should be a dedicated partition on 
a 
> separate drive and as big as you can spare, but at least 5+ times 
your 
> largest file (including all layers etc.). Photoshop is a real 
memory 
> hog, there should be nothing competing with it, that you can 
avoid. 
> Printing will compete with Photoshop and, if you are trying to 
work with 
> Photoshop while printing, you may pull HDD and memory resources 
from the 
> printer - I don't know if there is a way to fix this, but you may 
be 
> able to make printing top priority at the expense of whatever else 
is 
> going on.
> 
> Photoshop and your OS (Windows?) both need simultaneous access to 
a hard 
> disk for normal functions and they should not be the same HDD, 
even if 
> they use separate partitions. I think the ideal system setup is: 
OS on 
> one HD drive, Photoshop on another, scratch disk on another and OS 
> "virtual memory" (WindowsXP nomenclature) on a fourth HDD. Such a 
setup 
> minimizes conflicting HDD accesses between OS and Photoshop (at 
least in 
> Windows - don't know about Macs).
> 
> Frank
>