Digital BW, The Print

Frank,

The last file was very small, 2Meg. I'm using Photoshop Elements 3. 
I do have my OS and PE3 on the same hard drive and that could be a 
contributing factor. I did a disk cleanup after the defrag. That 
should have cleaned out the .tmp files. I will try freeing up more 
space on the HD. Thanks.

Les

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Frank Kolwicz 
<kolwicz@...> wrote:
>
> Les,
> 
> If your print file sizes are anywhere near 100Meg, 2 Gig 
(contiguous?) 
> free disk space may simply not be enough and, if you are printing 
from 
> Photoshop, your computer may be using your primary drive for 
Photoshop's 
> "Scratch Disk" which, ideally, should be a dedicated partition on 
a 
> separate drive and as big as you can spare, but at least 5+ times 
your 
> largest file (including all layers etc.). Photoshop is a real 
memory 
> hog, there should be nothing competing with it, that you can 
avoid. 
> Printing will compete with Photoshop and, if you are trying to 
work with 
> Photoshop while printing, you may pull HDD and memory resources 
from the 
> printer - I don't know if there is a way to fix this, but you may 
be 
> able to make printing top priority at the expense of whatever else 
is 
> going on.
> 
> Photoshop and your OS (Windows?) both need simultaneous access to 
a hard 
> disk for normal functions and they should not be the same HDD, 
even if 
> they use separate partitions. I think the ideal system setup is: 
OS on 
> one HD drive, Photoshop on another, scratch disk on another and OS 
> "virtual memory" (WindowsXP nomenclature) on a fourth HDD. Such a 
setup 
> minimizes conflicting HDD accesses between OS and Photoshop (at 
least in 
> Windows - don't know about Macs).
> 
> Frank
>