Re: maximum print size
Re: maximum print size
- Subject: Re: maximum print size
- From: Stephen Lawrence <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:39:24 +0000
jim schaefer wrote:
Stephen,
The issue is not the OS but the print driver.
Hi Jim, I didn't say the OS was the issue. I stated that print size
limitations *can* occur in any part of the imaging chain, from
application, through OS, to printer driver or RIP. From the
information Mark gave it seemed that someone may have made a blanket
statement to him that he would need to use a PC to print large
images. I was simply giving him some background information in the
hope it would make it clear that in general it was not as clear cut
as that. All three have been guilty in the past at various times (on
both the Mac and PC sides) and may well be in the future. To say that
the printer driver is always at fault would be making an equally
unhelpful blanket statement.
I do BIG panoramas using
a G5 and an Epson 7600 (and soon a 9800) and was limited to 94" by
the
Epson print driver until I bought ColorBurst RIP, when all limits
disappeared.
I'm glad to hear you overcame your own specific limits.
Obviously I have not investigated your specific problem but what lead
you to point the finger at the printer driver? If it was simply that
the problem disappeared then the problem might still lie with the
application or OS. Printing to a PS RIP will cause Photoshop to
bypass the OS printer driver print subsystem so you might simply be
working around an issue elsewhere. It's an apples for oranges
comparison, as the interface to the RIP is different. If you had
replaced the Epson printer driver for another then yes, most likely
the Epson driver would be at fault.
Without wanting to get into the specifics I can give one such example
from my own development experience on the PC. A wide format printer
OEM's printer driver would not print large images from a market
leading graphics arts application. The job would fail when spooling.
However Microsoft's most humble, little free with the OS, Paint
application happily would print the image. In both cases the printer
driver was behaving as it should. The problem lay in either the
graphics arts application, or the OS. Sadly I never got the
opportunity to conclusively find out which.
Which is not to defend printer drivers in particular, as I say any
part of the chain can cause a problem.
Regards
Steve
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