>After trying a number of suggestions I'm no further forward. In the last few
>days I've:
> Deleted the HP printer driver preferences
> Deleted and re-installed the HP printer driver
> Defragmented the hard drive
> Virtual memory OFF
> Quit all unnecessary applications
> Set printing to 'foreground'
> Set the resolution of the image to an easy divisor of the printer
> resolution
> Made the image a TIFF file rather than PICT or JPEG
> Set the Desktop Printer memory allocation to 50Mb
> Set GraphicConvertor's memory allocation to 50Mb
> There is 900Mb of contiguous hard drive space after defragmentation
> The largest unused block of RAM is 300Mb
>
>...and still the message "System error - Disk full (-34) occurred" after 15
>minutes or so :-(
>
>Even more interesting is the fact that if I use a 'PowerPrint' driver and
>serial/parallel cable rather than USB the printer begins to respond and
>begin printing after a mere 10/15 seconds! But the PowerPrint driver lacks
>some of the facilities of the HP driver - previewing, colour adjustment,
>saving of sets of preferences, range of paper types, etc.
>
>Just what **** Disk is filling up, where is it and just how large does it
>need to be?
>
>Alan G.
It's the 'spool disk' which is filling up and is allocated a certain
size by the printer driver which is not accessible by the user - so you
have to find your maximum file print size. It's a driver bug - with Epson
as well as HP in that the print file has a max for the 'spool disk'.
I had problems with a pdf from Gretag printed from Acrobat via
PressReady of some 96 A4 pages - I won't go into the hassles but the xxxx
would not print as I instructed it due to 'disk full' when I had 1.5 gigs
available through the Epson driver or the PressReady rip and eventually I
had to print this file in 24 page sections due to the limitations of the
driver.
I have now fixed the rip but not the Epson driver - which still has
a maximum file size for spooling to disk and reports 'disk full' if this
file size is exceeded.
Reducing the file size is the only suggestion I have...apart from
getting a rip...
Pete
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