Try setting both spool file settings to ram disk. very fast. Dean
Chuck Miller wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> For over a year I had lived with monitor and storage problems on my Power
> Tower Pro (500mhz G3 upgrade, OS9.1, 640mb RAM, part of a Ethernet/Airport
> network). One by one those problems got fixed. The only remaining one
> (keeping me from what passes as computer happiness) is that the PTP will not
> reliably print to an Epson 1270 inkjet printer.
>
> Every 3rd print or thereabouts stops in mid print and the PTP often freezes.
> I have the same problem whether I print through the PCI USB(-FireWire) board
> or if I go through the Ethernet network to an Axis 1440 Ethernet/parallel
> converter.
>
> I print in foreground, not background. Tried giving beaucoup RAM to the
> Epson Monitor. No help.
>
> I'm using the most recent Epson and 1270 drivers. In fact the same software
> and the same (mostly Illustrator) files print to the same 1270 through USB
> from my iBook with complete consistency - haven't lost a print yet. That's
> my workaround: Airporting all the files to the laptop and printing from
> there. It's a bit cumbersome.
>
> FirewireDirect said that Apple has not done a great job with its PCI USB
> implementation. (Might be PC bias.) But having the same problem through
> Ethernet suggests this may not be a USB thing.
>
> Maybe this is a PTP glitch. After all, it's an old computer rigged with all
> this modern stuff - I can't expect 100%, right? Perhaps not, but I still
> think there's a solution if I can just find it.
>
> Any suggestions??
>
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