Digital BW, The Print

OK.  Bob has made some good suggestions re setting up your scratch disks.
As a rule, if you can, place all your media files on the same disk that you
have nominated as your primary scratch disk and ensure that this is a fast
diak drive that does not hold your OS. I have not read all these posts but I
think you have said you have a dual Mac (so at least 2x1.8).  What do you
have for hard drives?  Single or dual? As I said, I have not yet set up a
scratch disk other than my one HD which also holds my OS and I am still not
getting the performance problems you are having.  Take a look at the RAM you
have allocated to PS.  As I only have 1GB in this new machine at the moment
I have it set to 90% which gives PS 789 MB.  However it has been debated
here and elsewhere before that RAM allocation should be left to the OS and
not individual apps.  My understanding is that OSX controls RAM allocation
between apps and so I am not sure which rules the roost (and that this is a
difference from Windows - I am not sure).  At any rate, I set the % high in
PS settings just to be safe.  If you have 2GB of RAM then a high allocation
will minimise the importance of your scratch disk setup.  It would be a
shame to toss a very capable machine simply because it needs a clean and
tune, rather than being broken.  Good luck


> From: chris <cjones@...t>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:26:37 -0400
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: Ideal Windows computer spec
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> Steve-
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> As soon as I get to the studio, I will implement Bob's suggestions.
> Hopefully, it will make a difference. Otherwise, I'm buying a PC.
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> Chris
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> From: Steve Kale [mailto:stevekale@btinternet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 8:37 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Ideal Windows computer spec
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> Chris
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> I take it from your comments that you are having some very unusual issues
> with your Mac.  OS-X has background printing and so yes you should have full
> use of PS once PS has sent the file to the print spooler.  You do not need
> to wait for the job to be spooled and printed.
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> Steve
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