Digital BW, The Print

Bob,

Have you set the Printer Properties to spool files? Or is it set to print
direct?

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Michaels" <bob@...>

> Is there any way to free up Photoshop by spooling a print? A typical
> print taking about 7 1/2 minutes through the printer keeps Photoshop
> busy for 7 minutes of that time. I can answer e-mail, surf the web or
> anything BUT PS. I'd like to start tweaking the next print during that
> time.
>
> It can't take Photoshop that long to send the file to the printer. I
> don't think it's the CPU,, memory or USB 2 hub because I can print
> from another application to another printer (same hub) without slowing
> things down. It's like Photoshop just won't spool off to a print
> buffer for some reason.
>
> PS 7.0, XP, 1.5 P4 w 1 gb of memory printing using an Epson 1280 via
> USB 2 hub.