Digital BW, The Print

Am I the only one who finds it strange, considering the way it needs 
VAST amounts of scratch space, that Adobe sent CS out the door only able 
to access 2 GB of RAM?

That said, for those with machines that have RAM above and beyond 2gB, I 
would suggest looking at some RAM disk products for the primary scratch 
disk... Looks like CS will probably end up rejuvenating the RAM disk 
market..

If you print from within PhotoShop, you may also want to consider using 
a RAM disk to spool files to.. Should give you faster print spooling and 
get you back to work in PShop more quickly during print runs.  Just make 
sure it is larger than the total (as in the total size for all documents 
you generally find in the queue during heavy use) spooled size of your 
largest images... (check your print queue during runs of large images 
for this info - keep in mind that given the way PShop and the EPSON 
driver work, multiple copies will multiply this figure)  You can change 
the spool disk location from the EPSON driver.

One important thing for Wintel people.. When you create the SWAP and 
SCRATCH partitions, DO NOT USE NTFS for scratch disks.. You're only 
going to have one file name on those partitions and you don't need the 
file security features of NTFS...  If you ar doing scratch disks of 2gB 
or less, use FAT, for scratch disks over 2gB go with FAT32. Both 
versions of FAT are aster than NTFS with small numbers of files, while 
FAT is the fastest when working with small numbers of large files (of 
course it can't format beyond 2 gB)..

Finally, I have some tips for EPSON drivers and PhotoShop 7 on WinTel 
boxes. You can find them over in the EPSON_Printers group at:
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/files/System%20Performance/>


 
Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," and caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/
 
"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"