Digital BW, The Print

Alan:

This is a common problem.  The solution is to put some backing behind 
the sheet to be printed.  The best way to do this is to get some 3/8 
foamcore cut to the size of the sheet you are using.  (Better still, 
foamcore cut to 11x13 will support both 11x17 and 13x19.) You can 
also use four or five pieces of thin cardboard of the sort that comes 
with many packages of paper.  (I do this for 8.5x11; just tape them 
together.)  If you're wondering why this works, I really don't know, 
but it always does.

Chuck



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Zimmerman" 
<azimmerman1@c...> wrote:
> Has any body out there had problems with the fine art papers not 
loading properly on the 1280? Only when I manually exert downward 
pressure on the paper at the print start command, does it load. Then, 
sometimes not correctly. Problem started suddenly 2 days ago after 
perfect performance for previous year.
> Any suggestions or work arounds?
> Alan Zimmerman
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Truman Prevatt 
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 7:45 AM
>   Subject: Re: [Digital BW] OT - PS7 Very Slow Loading
> 
> 
>   This is probably more of a computer problem than a PS problem. 
Myself 
>   I've never understood why photoshop takes so long - I suspect it 
is a 
>   dinosaur that needs to be completely rewritten which will 
probably never 
>   happen.
> 
>   What I think you probably saw was an OS problem. Windows after it 
has 
>   been up for a long period of time - especially if you have run 
>   applications that require a lot of memory - will get corrupted 
and many 
>   things will not be done correctly. Windows memory management is 
not very 
>   good. A reboot will solve the problem.
> 
>   This is the very reason that although we have tried many times in 
the 
>   past to use high end PC for digital signal processing 
applications 
>   Windows always fails because of system reliability. The only way 
we have 
>   ever gotten them to work is by throwing away Windows and using 
Linux.
> 
>   Truman
> 
>   Kip Babington wrote:
> 
>   >Is there a common reason why Photoshop 7 should all of a sudden 
take an 
>   >extraordinarily long time to load, and sometimes fail to load at 
all?  It 
>   >was doing fine this afternoon, but this evening when I tried to 
open it (to 
>   >do some B&W prints using Lyson Quad Black on my Canon S9000) 
I've had it 
>   >fail to load several times and on another occasion took about 4 
minutes to 
>   >load (felt like a half hour, of course.)
>   >
>   >It has always taken longer to load than any other program I use, 
but I can 
>   >see that it loads up a ton of stuff at the start - I watch the 
items flash 
>   >by on the startup screen.  But this evening there are several 
places where 
>   >it seems to get hung up on a plug-in - I remember Bas-Relief sat 
on the 
>   >screen for what seemed like forever, and there were several 
others where 
>   >the loading process just seemed to stop for a while.  Eventually 
it 
>   >finished and my image manipulation seemed to work at normal 
speed, but 
>   >clearly something is wrong.  I didn't do anything particular to 
the 
>   >computer that I can remember - I just have Eudora and Internet 
Explorer 
>   >open most of the time.  I don't leave Photoshop open all the 
time, just 
>   >open it when I'm ready to do some image work.
>   >
>   >Anything obvious to check to get back to "normal?"
>   >
>   >Thanks for any ideas.
>   >
>   >Cheers,
>   >Kip
>   >
>   >
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