Digital BW, The Print

Howdy Jerry,

I have 768Megs of ram (and it's a 3-year-old G4) but only 200 of it 
allocated to photoshop. I'll try that increase as well as tripling 
the driver's amount.

it doesn't spit the print out early, it keeps on going, just no ink 
flow after the first inch or so..!

at first I thought the large prints were consuming loads of ink, and 
I really could only get 5 Super A3s from the cartridge. but it has 
happened twice right after fresh ink was installed. and not to bring 
superstition into the mix, but my 13th print took four tries!!! 

and there was a strange connection to my success with a game I was 
playing on my pc while waiting... during those first four print 
attempts, I lost very quickly, but when I started out strong on the 
fifth game, I noticed the print coming nicely through the printer!!!
probably coincidence, but that's what I noticed...

now that's a-dot-iotic!!!

Tom


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Both.   
> 
> How much RAM have you on your computer?  I have  a GIG and it is 
not too much.
> 
> I give Photoshop 750,000 Megabytes
> 
> I have increased the epson monitor 3 application by 3 times the
> recommended amount.
> 
> This is only one reason why this could be happening, especially if 
you
> are really short on memory. Memory is unbelieveably cheap right 
now, go
> get some!
> 
> However, I can't see memory problems causing print quality decline. 
And
> you wouldn't think that cleaning it would have anything to do with 
it
> spitting out the print before it was finished. And how could you get
> total clogging so fast?  
> 
> However, as a last resort, this usually works for cleaning:  Squirt
> about 5ml ammonia/water solution (1:9) directly into the nipples of 
the
> print head.  Do a few cleanings and see if it does the trick. It may
> take 2 or 3 times to get all the clogged up ink dissolved, it took 2
> applications for me, but it DID work.
> 
> 
> jerry
> 
> pouty_bob wrote:
> > 
> > Howdy Jer (and All..!),
> > 
> > I have a similar problem with my 2000p from a Mac G4... after 4 
or 5
> > 13x19 prints, print quality either goes to hell, or the page
> > continues through the printer, getting no ink but for the initial
> > inch or so that fades to nothing...
> > 
> > a head cleaning usually fixes it, but the inconvenience sucks!
> > 
> > if it's a memory problem, do you mean more ram in general or just
> > more devoted to the epson driver..?
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson
> > <jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> > > I know of one reason it does this, Are you sure you have enough
> > memory?
> > > Other than that, I don't know.
> > >
> > > Jer
> > >
> > > Ken Carney wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I hate it when that happens.
> > > >
> > > > >>The printer starts normally, but the back-and-forth
> > > > rhythm of the print heads gets gradually slower, there are a 
few
> > > > stops and starts, and then the page ejects with only about a
> > linear
> > > > inch or two of printing on it.<<
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