Andreas:
Check the compression type of the TIFFs. I had a similar problem printing to
an HP DeskJet 550 using TIFFs scanned from an HP Scanjet and stored as
'compressed'. HP did not specify WHICH compression. Printing out these files
ALWAYS crashed the PC used as a print server, because these were the days
when 1GB was a big HDD!
I opened the TIFFs in Paintshop Pro, which told me that they were 'packbits
compressed'. I re-saved them using LZW compression and they worked
perfectly, producing small spool files.
I think I may have set a transparent colour, too, but it was a long time
ago!
It's worth noting that the problem was probably caused by the HP print
driver: when the same layout was sent to an Epson Stylus - even enlarging it
to A3, the spool files were tiny. This points to lazy coding on the part of
HP, but I'm willing to be corrected on this one.
Hope this is of some help to you
Regards
Graham O'Brien
London UK
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From: Andreas Mahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'MAPINFO-L' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 3:42 PM
Subject: MI Printing rasters on HP DesignJet 2500CP
>
> Hi Listers,
>
> we have a client who wants to print raster tiles (Tif, 300dpi, file size ~
> 4- 5 MB per tile), overlayed with vectors from MapInfo 5.5 on NT 4 SP 4 to
a
> HP DesignJet 2500 CP. The printer files grow up to 2 GB, which doesn't
> exactly speed up the printing process. Using another single raster file of
> about 400MB size, however, works fine: printer files are of a reasonable
> size and printing time is acceptable too.
>
> I wonder if anybody works in the same kind of environment and can help out
> with a few hints.
> By the way, Techsupport couldn't help here, and suggested using ProPress.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
> Andreas Mahn
> DDS GmbH
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