I was printing an exhibition for someone over the weekend and was printing proofs from photoshop, and then doubling up the final 16x20s on the 44-roll using PrintTool. There was an extreme difference in the time it took between hitting print and the printer starting to spit ink. Even printing one image from both print tool and photoshop shows the same difference in time it takes to start printing. This is a 3.3 6-core MacPro but the files aren't really all that big. Maybe 236MP flattened tiffs (the layered versions are over 2GB and print relatively quickly from Photoshop)
I've watched activity monitor as it is spooling and can't really see what process is taking so long ("cgpdftoraster" maybe?). Can anyone, or Roy, provide details about what is going on or how to speed it up (aside from using smaller files)
Thank you,
Richard Boutwell