Epson Stylus Pro 4800 slow
- From: witteman <witteman.2c266o@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 09:24:23 +0100
I am running an old Windows NT graphics program in WindowsXPpro directly
connected by USB to an Epson Stylus Pro 4800 on a Dell latitude laptop.
When I print a 4 MB graphics file windows stops working (freezes) and
printing takes hours (A3 page). I set the (original Epson) driver to
high speed, draft, no spooling, no sharing, print direct to printer,
RAW, and 99% priority but to no avail (dead slow), disabled
bi-directional, no change. Then doubled my page size (RAM) in WindowsXP
as my drive is only 10% full and this improved the Windows screen
behaviour a bit, CPU used by the graphics program is 95% so that must
be the problem. I tried to print to a network printer but that crashed
on the server. How to improve the data flow from my printer driver to
the Epson? What is the best setting (spooling or no spooling), what
about pooling (I saw that option in the driver). Should I try a Windows
generic printer driver instead of the Epson4800 driver? I tried to run
my graphics program in Windows NT and 95 mode, no change, I don't know
how to reduce the printer resolution (set at 4800 dpi according to my
program) in the driver, it has three options: draft, 4800 and 14000 dpi
but my program still handles draft as 4800 dpi. I could try to print to
a file and then somehow dump the file to the Epson (in a DOS screen?).
No cables came with the Epson and I don't believe there is a LPT
parallel port on the Epson (Dell has got one)
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witteman
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