" Hi, Great site!
This is a possible fix to problems printing large files (ex. 25MB and above) to an EPSON printer:
My printer: EPSON Stylus Pro XL
Machine: PowerMac 7600/200
RAM: 416MB
Chooser -> Background printing option: ON
Photoshop memory allocation: 200MB
Virtual memory: OFF

Increasing the memory allocation of "Epson Monitor2" in the extension folder to as much as one can afford (f.ex. 5 - 10MB) did the trick for me. In addition: The startup disk requires a lot of HD space to harbor the spool file.

My recommendation: 50 - 100MB (or more) for really large files. (Obviously, HD corruption can also be a cause of printing problems.)

Hope this helps.
Stein Saugnes "

" I may have a solution for the PhotoShop printing problems. I too had a problem printing large files (20M +) to my Epson Stylus 600. I would always get a freeze or a crash. Epson Tech support told me to increase the Ram allocated to the Epson Monitor2 app in the Extensions folder.

Needless to say it worked but I had to increase the minimum to 7M and the prefered to 10M. The latest driver release for the Epson 600 fixed the problem and allowed me to lower the requirment from 10M to 5M and still leave background printing on. I'm sure that this may be the case these other people are having and maybe there is an updated driver out for their printer.
Tom Koons "

" I have had problems printing with Photoshop 4.0 since I upgraded to ColorSync 2.5.

Since I didn't have the money budgeted for upgrading 50 5.0 (and it wasn't out at the time) I found a workaround.

I now do all my resizing and color correction in Photoshop and save the image as a Photoshop 4.0 file and print it with Graphic Converter. Graphic Converter has no problem printing 18-20 Meg photoshop files (6.5"x9.75" at 300 dpi).

Until Adobe gets their act together Graphic Converter will provide a printing solution (just give Graphic Converter 32-40 meg preferred size).
Doug Godfrey "

" I colour print to an Epson Stylus pro XL using the Birmy RIP. Last weekend I was doing A3 prints of 35mm trannies for a local sculptor. I had to move large amounts of programs from the drive running the RIP to make about 200mb of free space (even at the smaller 360dpi setting) for the spool file.

Slightly less space than this caused the RIP to take 'a very long time' to print (I guess it was compressing/decompressing).

A bit less space caused the whole thing to hang and not print at all (although i did not wait forever for it to do its work!).

As soon as I find the time I am going to shift the whole colour printing system to our server (an old IIFX) and give it 500mb+ of free space. This will free up my 'mac for work whilst the bubble jet printer does its line by line thing, enable the software to manage its spool file on a drive which has plenty of free space, and more importantly a drive which does not get fragmented.

Note: We do not print direct from Photoshop or Freehand but always drop the pics onto a page in Quark then create a PS file which goes to the RIP. This is partly because most of our work ultimately ends up going through Quark to an image setter and to plates, and partly because we have found this is a faster way to get the job done. We also get a better idea of overall colour control this way. We can also recommend using the Adobe Acrobat software to RIP the PS files to the screen for checking the separations for correct content.
Cyber CDP"