Digital BW, The Print

> From: Editor P.O.V. Image Service [mailto:editor@...]
>
> Versions of PShop earlier than CS only allowed the option of outputting
> in 8 bit to the driver.  However, you could still print a 16 bit image..
> PhotoShop simply did the conversion to 8 bit, before handing the data to
> the driver.. Now, PShop CS CAN output 16 bits to the driver, but only
> AFAIK only RIPS can handle the 16 bit data directly, not stock EPSON or
> Canon drivers (which are restricted to 8 bit input)

Somebody with Windows programming experience said in one of these lists that
the Windows API for communicating between an application and a printer
driver only supports 8-bit data.

> Photoshop 7
>
> To Load/Start-up the program:  40 seconds - PhotoShop using 65 mB of RAM
> and  a 48 mB Scratch file
>
> PhotoShop CS
>
> To Load/Start-up the program: 4 min 16 seconds (my recommendation, GO
> GET COFFEE!  - actually you could probably grind it from beans and brew
> it.. most of this time was spent scanning  plugins) - PhotoShop using
> 104 mB of RAM,  a 523 mB Scratch file on the RAM DISK,  and  1.4 gB of
> contiguous Hard Drive Scratch Space..

Huh? I've not seen times anywhere near that long on my comparatively wimpy
machines. On my 1.7GHz P-III IBM A31p laptop with 1GB RAM, PS7 starts in
about 15 seconds, or about 3 seconds if it's already sitting in the disk
cache. PS CS takes aboute 25 seconds fresh, 11 seconds out of the cache. Do
you have a bazillion plugins or something? It sounds like there might be
something hanging the startup process, something that you could fix if you
poked around a bit.

Your other times are impressive.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...