Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
> But it does appear that you can save as a TIFF file, read it into Preview and
> print from there.
> 
> BTW, from Epson literature it looks like the 7600/9600 are limited at 15meters
> or about 49 feet.
> 
> Roy
> 
> 
> Roy,
> 
> The limit must have to do with the data storage limits?

I imagine the 15 meter limit is pretty arbitrary but that's what the Epson document
says.   Some of the older limits were caused by only having 16 bits for the
page length but the newer printers all have 32 bits for page length.  That would
give absurdly long prints so they probably just picked 15 meters.

> 
> How to do you that, read into preview ? That is  new to me.

Yes, you can save the huge TIFF from PS and read into Preview (Mac's generic viewer).
I didn't actually print but the Print command was enabled.

> 
> So your saying out of Photoshop we should be able to reach this length - (49 
> feet ) in QTR? Now that would be something, althought it would probably take 
> all day and all night to print on the finer settings.

Temp files could get humongous and might bring most machines to their knees.
So although 49 feet is theoretically possible it might not be practical.

Roy

> 
> John