Digital BW, The Print

Hello all;

I seem to have a bit of weirdness going on: occasionally my 1280 
decides about 1/4 of the way down a print that all image data is 
straight lines, and procceeds to print everything in vertical lines 
down the rest of the image, with the tone of each line coresponding 
to the tone it was printing when it decided to flip out. The effect 
is quite Dali-esque, it looks like the image just ran sown the page, 
but in a very organized fashion. Turning off the printer gets me a 
few good prints, until it happens again. Only happens on vertical 
prints 4x6-ish and up in size. Any ideas?

 Also, a Photoshop glitch: when I try to save a TIFF I get a message 
that "Cannot save *******.tif because the file is in use or was left 
open"  Come again? why else would you want to save a file anyway? 
Has anybody else haad the problem? I thought it was only PS 7 but 
this morning PS 6 did it too. Help!

Thanks for any ideas;

Steve Karafyllakis

There could be anumber of possible reasons, but without knowing more 
about your particular setup I would look at a memory/spooling error 
to start with. Try turning off spooling/background printing. Also, 
try printing at different image sizes and resolutions to see if the 
problem is aggravated by larger file sizes.

Photoshop problem -- I've had that occur periodically, usually a 
reboot clears it up. Try saving the file to a different location. 
Also see if your scratch disk(s) are all filled up, if so try 
Edit/Purge/All (losing any possibility of undo/history).

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dsmithhfx 
<dsmithhfx@y...>" <dsmithhfx@y...> wrote:
> There could be anumber of possible reasons, but without knowing 
more 
> about your particular setup I would look at a memory/spooling 
error 
> to start with. Try turning off spooling/background printing. Also, 
> try printing at different image sizes and resolutions to see if 
the 
> problem is aggravated by larger file sizes.
> 
> Photoshop problem -- I've had that occur periodically, usually a 
> reboot clears it up. Try saving the file to a different location. 
> Also see if your scratch disk(s) are all filled up, if so try 
> Edit/Purge/All (losing any possibility of undo/history).

Thanks for the feedback; I've been mulling it over all day (the 
printing problem) and I've come to the conclusion that it's likely a 
spooling problem as well, so I'll set it to print directly to the 
printer and see if that helps.

As for th PS file-saving problem, I have a 5.6G scratch disk in a 
seperate partition, I'm inclined to look elswhere. Odd thing is that 
if I save a PS file as a tiff it works fine, but I can reopen that 
very same tif, edit it, and then can't save it. Weird.

Thanks again, Steve K

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis <stevek@e...>" <stevek@e...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dsmithhfx 
> <dsmithhfx@y...>" <dsmithhfx@y...> wrote:
> > There could be anumber of possible reasons, but without knowing 
> more 
> > about your particular setup I would look at a memory/spooling 
> error 
> > to start with. Try turning off spooling/background printing. 
Also, 
> > try printing at different image sizes and resolutions to see if 
> the 
> > problem is aggravated by larger file sizes.
> > 
> > Photoshop problem -- I've had that occur periodically, usually a 
> > reboot clears it up. Try saving the file to a different 
location. 
> > Also see if your scratch disk(s) are all filled up, if so try 
> > Edit/Purge/All (losing any possibility of undo/history).
> 
> Thanks for the feedback; I've been mulling it over all day (the 
> printing problem) and I've come to the conclusion that it's likely 
a 
> spooling problem as well, so I'll set it to print directly to the 
> printer and see if that helps.
> 
> As for th PS file-saving problem, I have a 5.6G scratch disk in a 
> seperate partition, I'm inclined to look elswhere. Odd thing is 
that 
> if I save a PS file as a tiff it works fine, but I can reopen that 
> very same tif, edit it, and then can't save it. Weird.
> 
> Thanks again, Steve K

An update- I've never turned of the spooling before-it seems ti fix 
the problem, but Quark Xpress, out of which I'm printing this, 
freezes until the print job is done. It didn't register before, but 
this only happens when printing out of Quark 4.0. So... the rule of 
thumb is, 'the more expensive the software the buggier it is'???

Steve K

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis <stevek@e...>" <stevek@e...> wrote:
> An update- I've never turned of the spooling before-it seems ti fix 
> the problem, but Quark Xpress, out of which I'm printing this, 
> freezes until the print job is done. It didn't register before, but 
> this only happens when printing out of Quark 4.0. So... the rule of 
> thumb is, 'the more expensive the software the buggier it is'???
> 
> Steve K

Well if you turn off spooling, your pc is 100% dedicated to the print 
job, instead of running it in the background. If you have another pc, 
you could use that as a print server.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dsmithhfx 
<dsmithhfx@y...>" <dsmithhfx@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
> Karafyllakis <stevek@e...>" <stevek@e...> wrote:
> > An update- I've never turned of the spooling before-it seems ti 
fix 
> > the problem, but Quark Xpress, out of which I'm printing this, 
> > freezes until the print job is done. It didn't register before, 
but 
> > this only happens when printing out of Quark 4.0. So... the rule 
of 
> > thumb is, 'the more expensive the software the buggier it is'???
> > 
> > Steve K
> 
> Well if you turn off spooling, your pc is 100% dedicated to the 
print 
> job, instead of running it in the background. If you have another 
pc, 
> you could use that as a print server.

Right! I do in fact have an older machine I had intended to use as a 
server, but I loaned to a friend in need... I guess I'll have to put 
up with it, I don't have to use Quark that often anyway. besides, I 
seem to have given myself bigger and badder headaches with this 7500 
I picked up last week, as you'll see from my other post.

Thanks for the help.

Steve K