Digital BW, The Print

Sandy--I started to make a 13X19 print today using the RIP with the 2200 and Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper. After all the good trial prints that I have been getting with the RIP, I was looking forward with great anticipation making a print with the HPR paper. However, the printer was going so slow--I mean very, very slow--that I stopped the printing. The printer is connected to the USB port for "normal" printing and to the LPT port for the RIP. It doesn't run slow with the "normal" printer. 

I am using WIN XP with 2GB of RAM, an 80GB Hard Drive and P4 2.8 chip, so I don't think it is the computer is causing it to run so slow. As soon as I can find a 10' Firewire cord I will disconnect the RIP printer and reinstall it with the Firewire connection. In the meantime, any suggestions you have that I could implement to improve the RIP's printing speed would be much appreciated. 

Thanks in advance

Peter Palmieri




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