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Re: freeing up Photoshop while printing

2003-11-12 by Bob Michaels

Paul, thanks. C:/windows/system32/spool/printers WAS set to read only.
Now I certainly have no idea how it got that way. 

These new operating systems are getting to complex for me. I was
beginning to understand DOS and Microsoft has been putting me farther
and farther behind for the last ten years. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul D. DeRocco"
<pderocco@i...> wrote:
> > From: Bob Michaels [mailto:bob@b...]
> >
> > 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.
> 
> How much disk space do you have? It may fall back to not spooling if
you're
> running low. You might also see if you can figure out where it dumps
spool
> files (I expect somewhere under c:\windows\system32\spool) and make sure
> nothing is interfering with this, such as a folder incorrectly marked
> read-only, etc.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@i...

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