I'm using the latest Adobe drivers.

Some of my users have reported seeing error output like this:

   This job requires more memory than is available in this printer
   [additional verbiage deleted]

So far, nobody has been able to reproduce this problem reliably, so I'm
just shooting in the dark.

The PostScript code for print jobs contains occasional checks of the
form "nnnnn VM?" where nnnnn is a number of bytes which the PostScript
driver thinks will be needed and VM? is an operator which subtracts the
currently used VM (virtual memory) from the maximum available VM,
compares it with nnnnn, and prints the error message above if it is not
enough.

Unfortunately, it's not clear where the maximum available VM figure
comes from.  It's possible that it has something to do with the
"Available PostScript Memory" parameter in the "Printer Settings" tab of
the "Printer Properties" dialog box for the print queue.

The "Available PostScript Memory" parameter gets automatically modified
(presumably in a reasonable fashion) when the "Total Memory" parameter
is set.  Since the default value for "Total Memory" (4MB for HP
printers) is _very_ low compared to our recommended 64MB, it's possible
that this setting is responsible for these errors.

Another possible reason for lack of memory would be memory leaks in the
printers' print engines.

Any helpful comments would be appreciated.
-Rick

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|Rick Cochran                                   phone: 607-255-7618|
|Cornell CIT - Systems & Operations - Net-Print   FAX: 607-255-8521|
|730 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853        email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|



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