Digital BW, The Print

>In the meantime, any suggestions you have that I could implement to 
>improve the RIP's printing speed would be much appreciated. 

Well, my computer has WIN98SE on it with 512 meg ram and 850 MHz, 
much slower and less capable than yours. I'm not that familiar with 
XP. I have five printers hooked up to my computer. The Epson RIP 
(treated as a separate printer) going thru a USB port labelled "EPSON 
StylusRIP", an Epson 2200 going thru EPUSB2 (a USB port), an Epson 
960 going thru EPUSB3 (a USB port), an Epson 1280 going thru EPUSB1 
(a USB port), and an HP LaserJet (for printing text) going thru LPT1. 
My USB ports are the old 1.1 types and the printing times are the 
same whether thru the standard driver or the RIP. Don't know what to 
say, doggonit -- wish I could help.

I've called Epson America tech support before for issues and they 
were very helpful (but the long distance call is on your nickel since 
they don't have an 800 number). Hope you can get it fixed soon.