Thanks to all who responded, especially Russel Lawley and Matt Wilkie. I've got a few more responses from people who are fighting the same kind of problems. Cheers, Andreas Here's what Russell wrote: > Yes, we print tiled images on a DJ2500. > > 1, check that your tiffs are LZW compression not 'packbits', Mapinfo > has a big problem with these. > 2, check that none of your tiffs have any any transparency set > (mapinfo goes wild!, if you need transparency, then buy a very big PC > or contact me again) > 3, process the spool file on the PC, don't try and print directly to > the printer or the print server. > > Because we too sometimes get problems with plot sizes we tend to > stitch out tiles together into bigger tiff files. This also helps, > because we usually need transparency, and the only way to do that at > the moment is to limit yourself to one tiff image per plot and hack > the postscript file. > > As for propress..... i dont know, we havent been able to get hold of > an evaluation copy yet, and nobody is exactly singing its praises. > > regards > > russell > And here's Matt's hint: Use the HPGL/2-RTL printer driver instead of Postscript. File size and print speed is drastically improved. Unfortunately there are problems with colour control and transparencies, depedending on the nature of your maps, this may not be a problem however. -matt The original question was: 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
