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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Print Tool have a limit on print size?

2018-01-11 by Mark Savoia

Great, thanks for the tips.

Mark
stillrivereditions.com

> On Jan 11, 2018, at 2:40 PM, Roy Harrington roy@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> As mentioned there are no hard limits but a couple things are worth doing to keep memory usage down.
> 
> 1) convert to grayscale if in RGB (assuming B&W printing)
> 2) do any color management in PS so you can print No Color Mgmt in Print-Tool
> 3) convert to 8-bit from 16-bit  (you will not loose anything with this)
> 4) rotate image so you are printing 44 width by 20feet height  (i.e. use portrait not landscape)
> 
> All these will lessen the memory requirement.
> 
> Roy

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