Digital BW, The Print

Nij,

My W98 Spool Settings are: "Spool print jobs so program finishes printing
faster."  (The alternative is, "Print directly to the printer.") Under the
first setting I've checked, "Start printing after first page is spooled."
(The alternative is after the last page is spooled.)   The spool data format
is RAW.

This sounds like what you described.

Well, I'll be going to Win XP after the first of the year.  So this might be
moot for me.  Also, frankly, I don't use the Piezo driver that much.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Paul
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Original message:

Paul,

I'm a bit hazy on Win98 settings, but I think that if you go to the Printers
'app', select your Piezo printer and right click to get the properties
dialog. On Win2000, the Spooling options are on the 'Advanced' tab - select
the "Spool documents so program finishes faster" option, along with "Start
printing immediately"

That ought to do the trick - though the options in Win98 may only be
'similar' to this and not exactly the same.

Best,
Nij

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Roark [mailto:paul.roark@...]
>
>
> Nij,
>
> You wrote:
>
> >I'm guessing that you must be a Mac user - because the spooling is not an
> >issue with Piezo on Windows; ...
>
> No, I'm on a Win 98 machine.  I don't know if it is "spooling" or
> whatever,
> but all I see is the hour-glass in the Photoshop area.  And, it's not just
> for a little while.  It's during the entire printing process.
>
> Paul
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Paul Roark [mailto:paul.roark@...]
> <snip>
> >> Also, while using the Piezo driver (ver. 513e) recently I was
> >> reminded of an
> >> irritating characteristic.  I can't do any other work in
> >> Photoshop while the
> >> Piezo driver is working.  I can continue to work when the
> Epson driver is
> >> printing.
> >
> >> Has there been any improvement in these two characteristics with Ver. 6
> of
> >> the Piezo driver?
> <snip>