Digital BW, The Print

Yes I have print spooling enabled. But it certainly acts like it
doesn't spool at all. That's what baffles me. The once simple
unidirectional dumping a file off to a buffer (I even remember the 64K
hardware in line buffers for DOS) now gets so convoluted that I can't
figure out if it's Photoshop, the Epson print driver, the Epson status
monitor or what is waiting for some feedback from the printer before
it send more data from Photoshop. 

I'm still stumped. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Frost"
<bobfrost@b...> wrote:
> 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@b...>
> 
> > 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.