QTR-Quadtone RIP

I've no idea if this will be of any help to you but I had something
similar happen the other day with a Win XP system. Overnight it
started spooling incredibly slowly and eventually ended up by giving
communication errors after partial prints. I tried new cables,
uninstalling the printer and driver and reinstalling, different
printers and even removing and reinstalling  QTR itself. Nothing
helped. I finally tried printing to a file via QTR and then using the
command line to copy the file directly to the printer while bypassing
the print spooler entirely. That worked. So I think something in the
spooler itself has gone awry. At the moment I'm printing from QTR
directly to the printer without spooling until I can determine exactly
what to do to fix the problem. That totally ties up the computer so is
a bit inconvenient but getting the prints out is the end game.

One thing I also noticed is that small files seemed to print alright
sometimes. Another is that I dared not use the fit to paper option in
QTR or give it an unusual dpi file or anything other than 100% in the
spin box or it would crash rapidly.

Regards
Duane

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Atherton" <timatherton@...>
wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this was due to changes in printers or in versions of 
> QTR, but when I used an Epson 2200, this was never a problem.
> 
> Then I found that with an Epson 2400, QTR was taking forever to 
> process and/or (I'm not exactly clear on what the actual process is 
> it goes through...) spool prints
> 
> Doesn't matter if they are 8x10 or 13x19 - the former just don't take 
> quite so long. But for a 13x19, I'm talking 30+ minutes
> 
> I recently got a 3800 and thought maybe it was just the interface 
> with the 2400, but no - I get the same.
> 
> I've tried various different connections - Firewire, USB, Network - 
> same for each. I've also fiddled with all sorts of different Windows 
> settings, but none made a difference.
> 
> This is compared with using the Epson driver that for the same print 
> takes maybe 4-5 minutes at most
> 
> All on the same (somewhat old, but still fairly fast) Windows 2000 
> machine
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions (as I really like QTR...)
> 
> thanks
> 
> tim a
>