Digital BW, The Print

Hi, I am working on a big print order, several hundret prints total and I am 
trying to find a way speed  things up a bit.(  I am working in OSX on a Mac with 
a 2200 for color and OPM in Classic for B&W. )  Obviously there's nothing that 
can be done about the actual print time the printer needs per page , apart 
from dpi settings ,of course. 
I am talking mostly about OPM here, that's the real time killer. I can't do more 
than one at a time. So i got to sit there in real time and do one print at a ime. 
Even when I do  repeats of the same image it will mostly crash and I need to 
start OPM from scratch. So it's REALLY  slow going ...
I wish there was a way to 'cue' several prints in OPM like in the Epson driver. 
That way I could just line them all up, hit 'print' and let it run overnight...
Any ideas   ?...

Thanks, Wolf

Not sure what paper you are working with, or what print size...but when  
I have large print quantities to do I gang print...sending a a long  
piece of paper through the printer.  For instance, if you are printing  
9x 12's you can buy full sheets of paper and put 12 x 36" sheets  
through...printing four prints on a print job.  Just set this up in  
photoshop in advance.  Then cut the long sheets down after they are  
printed.

Also, if OPM is crashing that much...you may have a system problem.  I  
strongly suggest running OPM booted under OS9....don't run in Classic.  
Try reseting your pram, rebuilding the desktop and maybe doing a clean  
install of your system software.  I've printed hundreds of prints with  
OPM on both my 2200 and 7000 since my last crash.  Not sure whether you  
are trying to do other things at the same time on the machine...but  
that's not a good idea with OS9. I use an older machine running OS9  
with OPM as a print server.  This machine is networked to my OSX  
machine which is used for image editing.  A third machine is used for  
scanning.  I can keep myself continuously busy with this workflow and  
push out a lot of work at one time.

Robert

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 04:29 PM, wolfmann37122 wrote:

> Hi, I am working on a big print order, several hundret prints total  
> and I am
> trying to find a way speed  things up a bit.(  I am working in OSX on  
> a Mac with
> a 2200 for color and OPM in Classic for B&W. )  Obviously there's  
> nothing that
> can be done about the actual print time the printer needs per page ,  
> apart
> from dpi settings ,of course.
> I am talking mostly about OPM here, that's the real time killer. I  
> can't do more
> than one at a time. So i got to sit there in real time and do one  
> print at a ime.
> Even when I do  repeats of the same image it will mostly crash and I  
> need to
> start OPM from scratch. So it's REALLY  slow going ...
> I wish there was a way to 'cue' several prints in OPM like in the  
> Epson driver.
> That way I could just line them all up, hit 'print' and let it run  
> overnight...
> Any ideas   ?...
>
> Thanks, Wolf
>
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Thanks, Robert, 
actually, I am running in Classic because I am doing my editing in OSX while 
OPM is running. I like the idea with several machines, but... I only have one....
OPM never crashes when I do one print at a time, but it just closes down when 
I want to do a re-print of the same image without doing file>open. So I just go 
back and re-open OPM, no big deal , but still anoying. It even says in the 
instructions, this is a known bug. 
Wolf