Digital BW, The Print

Is there any way to free up Photoshop by spooling a print? A typical
print taking about 7 1/2 minutes through the printer keeps Photoshop
busy for 7 minutes of that time. I can answer e-mail, surf the web or
anything BUT PS. I'd like to start tweaking the next print during that
time. 

It can't take Photoshop that long to send the file to the printer. I
don't think it's the CPU,, memory or USB 2 hub because I can print
from another application to another printer (same hub) without slowing
things down. It's like Photoshop just won't spool off to a print
buffer for some reason. 

PS 7.0, XP, 1.5 P4 w 1 gb of memory printing using an Epson 1280 via
USB 2 hub. 

Ideas?

> From: Bob Michaels [mailto:bob@...]
>
> Is there any way to free up Photoshop by spooling a print? A typical
> print taking about 7 1/2 minutes through the printer keeps Photoshop
> busy for 7 minutes of that time. I can answer e-mail, surf the web or
> anything BUT PS. I'd like to start tweaking the next print during that
> time.

Dunno about XP, but in Win2K there's a radio button in the Advanced tab of
the printer Properties dialog for that.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

Hmm..not sure about this in XP, although I'd find it hard to 
believe there isn't an option available to get around this (then 
again, I know someone who recently bought an older PC to set 
up as a print server. He's running Win 2000 Pro). On the Mac you 
can get right back to work in PS as soon as spooling is done, 
provided Background Printing is enabled.

- Barrett

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob 
Michaels" <bob@b...> wrote:
> Is there any way to free up Photoshop by spooling a print? A 
typical
> print taking about 7 1/2 minutes through the printer keeps 
Photoshop
> busy for 7 minutes of that time. I can answer e-mail, surf the 
web or
> anything BUT PS. I'd like to start tweaking the next print during 
that
> time. 
> 
> It can't take Photoshop that long to send the file to the printer. I
> don't think it's the CPU,, memory or USB 2 hub because I can 
print
> from another application to another printer (same hub) without 
slowing
> things down. It's like Photoshop just won't spool off to a print
> buffer for some reason. 
> 
> PS 7.0, XP, 1.5 P4 w 1 gb of memory printing using an Epson 
1280 via

> USB 2 hub. 
> 
> Ideas?

Bob,

Have you set the Printer Properties to spool files? Or is it set to print
direct?

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Bob Michaels" <bob@...>

> Is there any way to free up Photoshop by spooling a print? A typical
> print taking about 7 1/2 minutes through the printer keeps Photoshop
> busy for 7 minutes of that time. I can answer e-mail, surf the web or
> anything BUT PS. I'd like to start tweaking the next print during that
> time.
>
> It can't take Photoshop that long to send the file to the printer. I
> don't think it's the CPU,, memory or USB 2 hub because I can print
> from another application to another printer (same hub) without slowing
> things down. It's like Photoshop just won't spool off to a print
> buffer for some reason.
>
> PS 7.0, XP, 1.5 P4 w 1 gb of memory printing using an Epson 1280 via
> USB 2 hub.

Yes I have print spooling enabled. But it certainly acts like it
doesn't spool at all. That's what baffles me. The once simple
unidirectional dumping a file off to a buffer (I even remember the 64K
hardware in line buffers for DOS) now gets so convoluted that I can't
figure out if it's Photoshop, the Epson print driver, the Epson status
monitor or what is waiting for some feedback from the printer before
it send more data from Photoshop. 

I'm still stumped. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Frost"
<bobfrost@b...> wrote:
> Bob,
> 
> Have you set the Printer Properties to spool files? Or is it set to
print

> direct?
> 
> Bob Frost.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Michaels" <bob@b...>
> 
> > Is there any way to free up Photoshop by spooling a print? A typical
> > print taking about 7 1/2 minutes through the printer keeps Photoshop
> > busy for 7 minutes of that time. I can answer e-mail, surf the web or
> > anything BUT PS. I'd like to start tweaking the next print during that
> > time.
> >
> > It can't take Photoshop that long to send the file to the printer. I
> > don't think it's the CPU,, memory or USB 2 hub because I can print
> > from another application to another printer (same hub) without slowing
> > things down. It's like Photoshop just won't spool off to a print
> > buffer for some reason.
> >
> > PS 7.0, XP, 1.5 P4 w 1 gb of memory printing using an Epson 1280 via
> > USB 2 hub.

> From: Bob Michaels [mailto:bob@...]
>
> Yes I have print spooling enabled. But it certainly acts like it
> doesn't spool at all. That's what baffles me. The once simple
> unidirectional dumping a file off to a buffer (I even remember the 64K
> hardware in line buffers for DOS) now gets so convoluted that I can't
> figure out if it's Photoshop, the Epson print driver, the Epson status
> monitor or what is waiting for some feedback from the printer before
> it send more data from Photoshop.

How much disk space do you have? It may fall back to not spooling if you're
running low. You might also see if you can figure out where it dumps spool
files (I expect somewhere under c:\windows\system32\spool) and make sure
nothing is interfering with this, such as a folder incorrectly marked
read-only, etc.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

Paul, thanks. C:/windows/system32/spool/printers WAS set to read only.
Now I certainly have no idea how it got that way. 

These new operating systems are getting to complex for me. I was
beginning to understand DOS and Microsoft has been putting me farther
and farther behind for the last ten years. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul D. DeRocco"
<pderocco@i...> wrote:
> > From: Bob Michaels [mailto:bob@b...]
> >
> > Yes I have print spooling enabled. But it certainly acts like it
> > doesn't spool at all. That's what baffles me. The once simple
> > unidirectional dumping a file off to a buffer (I even remember the 64K
> > hardware in line buffers for DOS) now gets so convoluted that I can't
> > figure out if it's Photoshop, the Epson print driver, the Epson status
> > monitor or what is waiting for some feedback from the printer before
> > it send more data from Photoshop.
> 
> How much disk space do you have? It may fall back to not spooling if
you're
> running low. You might also see if you can figure out where it dumps
spool

> files (I expect somewhere under c:\windows\system32\spool) and make sure
> nothing is interfering with this, such as a folder incorrectly marked
> read-only, etc.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@i...

> From: Bob Michaels [mailto:bob@...]
> 
> Paul, thanks. C:/windows/system32/spool/printers WAS set to read only.
> Now I certainly have no idea how it got that way. 

I have no idea either. In fact, I have no idea how I knew that. ;-)

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

Bob,

I have a faint recollection of someone else with a similar problem that I
think was solved by unchecking Advanced Printing in Printer
Properties/Advanced. Might be worth a try!

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Bob Michaels" <bob@...>


> Yes I have print spooling enabled. But it certainly acts like it
> doesn't spool at all. That's what baffles me. The once simple
> unidirectional dumping a file off to a buffer (I even remember the 64K
> hardware in line buffers for DOS) now gets so convoluted that I can't
> figure out if it's Photoshop, the Epson print driver, the Epson status
> monitor or what is waiting for some feedback from the printer before
> it send more data from Photoshop.
>
> I'm still stumped.

Hi,
I have to same problem and I ended up with a Mac, no such problem 
with OSX. I am going to try a Linux based machine as a print server.

Barry
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul D. 
DeRocco" <pderocco@i...> wrote:
> > From: Bob Michaels [mailto:bob@b...]
> > 
> > Paul, thanks. C:/windows/system32/spool/printers WAS set to read 
only.

> > Now I certainly have no idea how it got that way. 
> 
> I have no idea either. In fact, I have no idea how I knew that. ;-)
> 
> -- 
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@i...