QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi Tim,

I'm far from being much of a Windows expert -- especially W 2000.
But there haven't been any significant changes to how QTR works on Windows
for a very long time so I don't know why it should be different.

There are the usual suspects -- disk fragmentation and very large files.
Also since my main machine is a Mac I only use my Windows XP occasionally but
periodically it gets super slow and if I look at Task Manager it's the
virus checker
doing who knows what -- it uses 100% of cpu for an hour.
I'd check the Task Manager and see what processes are using the CPU and
how much disk I/O is being done.

Roy

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:50 PM, 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
>
>